English Decorative Arts and Architecture

Flashcards covering English architectural elements, furniture, and period styles ranging from Elizabethan to Georgian.

Ball Room, Haddon Hall

A half-timber wood structure photographed by Catharine Weed Barnes Ward c. 1892, featuring Italianate/Palladian details, oak panelling, strapwork plaster ceiling, and a Tudor Long Gallery with south-facing windows.

Strapwork

A type of plaster ceiling decoration that resembles leather straps or cut metalwork.

Catharine Weed Barnes Ward

Photographer who documented the Ball Room at Haddon Hall circa 1892.

Turned chair

A style of chair common in Elizabethan and Jacobean design, with a notable early 17th-century example located at the Bishop's Palace, Wells, Somerset, England.

Glastonbury Chair

A chair design associated with the Elizabethan style.

Georgian style

The dominant design style of 18th-century England during the reigns of George I (r. 1714-27) and George II (r. 1727-60).

Room from Kirtlington Park

A 1748 Georgian room with white-painted plasterwork from near Oxford, England, preserved at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Thomas Chippendale Side chair

A side chair created by designer Thomas Chippendale between 1755 and 1765.