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Germany
At the time when Queen Anne
walnut-veneered furniture was being made
in England, rather similar pieces were
made in parts of Germany. They can be
distinguished from one another by the
more extravagant lines of those from
Germany: whereas an English chest might
have a gently shaped front with straight
sides, the German equivalent would have
a deeply curved front, and the sides
would be curved also. German walnut
bureau-bookcases (a sloping-front bureau
with a cupboard above) have been offered
from time to time as genuinely of
English manufacture, and in some
instances their more obvious curves have
been skilfully reduced. Later in the
eighteenth century Germany copied the
prevailing French styles.
Holland
Dutch furniture has always had close
links with English, and much Dutch and
Flemish oak has been, and still is,
mistaken for English work. In the times
of William and Mary and Queen Anne,
there was a flow of Dutch craftsmen 10
England, and much of the furniture of
those periods could have been made in
either country. Some of the
walnut-veneered and marquetry pieces
are, like the German, rather over-shaped
and too heavily decorated to be of
English make.
Large two-door cupboards of walnut and
ebony were popular, these were
constructed to take to pieces for
transport and are found in Holland and
farther afield. Dutch chairs of a design
reminiscent of the work of Robert Adam,
with carved ornament of leaves and
ribbons, were made in mahogany and can
be mistaken for English.
Towards the end of the eighteenth
century, the Dutch cabinetmakers made
some attractive furniture of oak
veneered with satinwood and inset with
shaped panels of lacquer. Tables,
cabinets and fall-front secretaires are
to be found in this style.
Much of the Dutch walnut and mahogany
furniture inlaid with marquetry of
flowers and birds, often bookcases with
glazed doors, and sloping-front bureaus,
have had the marquetry added long after
they were made. This was done when plain
furniture was temporarily unfashionable.
Italy
Italian furniture inspired or followed
the design of most of the main types of
other European countries. Marquetry was
first used there, and developed later in
Holland and England, and by Boulle in
France. The furniture of Italy varies
from district to district, not only in
details of design but in the timber from
which it was made. Many pieces were
veneered, others were gilded, and others
lacquered. The painted or lacquered
furniture made in Venice in the
eighteenth century is much in demand at
present.
Scandinavia
Much English furniture was imported into
the Scandinavian countries in the
eighteenth century. The most famous and
valu¬able that was actually made there
was the work of a Swede, George Haupt
(1741 to 1784), trained in Paris and
London, who made furniture in Stockholm
in the Louis XVI style. His work is rare
and valuable.
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