Gentle Art of Faking Furniture, Herbert Cescinsky
- Author(s): Robert Cescinsky
- Category: Furniture & Furnishings
- Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc.
- Publish year: 1967
- ISBN: 9678000013767
- Number of Pages: 484
possible. ~ This book has been written in the manner of a signpost, which points the way to a place but does not go there. If the reader have the idea that it is possible to acquire an accurate and comprehensive knowledge of faking and its detection from the following pages, without further reinforcement by way of technical experience and long and keen observation of many examples of English furniture and woodwork, then he, or she, will be disappointed. So much should be obvious, but the obvious is not always apparent.
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COVER
PREFACE
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I - INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER II - ABOUT FAKES IN GENERAL
CHAPTER III - THE GENUINE ANTIQUE AND ITS MERITS
CHAPTER III - THE GENUINE ANTIQUE AND ITS MERITS
CHAPTER IV - THE WOODWORKER OF THE OLDEN TIME
CHAPTER V - DETECTIVE METHODS AND THE PROBLEM OF RESTORATION
CHAPTER VI - EARLY OAK FURNITURE AND WOODWORK
CHAPTER VII - OAK PANELLINGS AND WOODWORK
CHAPTER VIII - OAK FURNITURE OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
CHAPTER IX - THE LARGE PANEL IN ENGLISH WOODWORK
CHAPTER X WALNUT FURNITURE FROM 1660 To 1700
CHAPTER XI - MARQUETERIE FURNITURE
CHAPTER XII - LACQUER WORK
CHAPTER XIII - NEEDLEWORK AND STUMP-WORK
CHAPTER XIV - QUEEN ANNE AND GEORGIAN WALNUT
CHAPTER XV - MAHOGANY FURNITURE
CHAPTER XVI - THE WORK OF THE CHIPPENDALE SCHOOL
CHAPTER XVII - FURNITURE OF THE HEPPLEWHITE SCHOOL
CHAPTER XVIII - FURNITURE OF THE SHERATON SCHOOL
CHAPTER XIX - ENGLISH WALL MIRRORS
CHAPTER XX - LONG-CASE AND BRACKET CLOCKS
CHAPTER XXI - DISCURSIVE AND CONCLUSIVE
INDEX