Antique Furniture

A view of the various kinds of souces of turning will reveal several phrases of international trade relations, but none of the decorative processes will reveal such varied and engaging aspects as laquer.

Brought in small quantities from the Orient, even as early as Tudor times, it elicited admiration and arrived from year to year.

Somewhat before the closing years of the seventeenth century it had come to be imitated with varying success by English craftsmen and the enthusiasm for laquered furniture became on of the dominating mobiliary influences of the area.

Not only did laquered furniture retain its vogue undiminished during a large part of the eighteenth century, but it seems also to have created a widespread taste for Oriental wares and Oriental designs that cropped up persistently from time to time under one form or another with periodic recrudescence.