2 options
Irish furniture : woodwork and carving in Ireland from the earliest times to the Act of Union / the Knight of Glin and James Peill ; including A dictionary of Irish furniture-makers by John Rogers ; with photography by James Fennell and Dara McGrath.
LIBRA NK2537 .K65 2007
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Glin, Desmond FitzGerald, Knight of, 1937-2011.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Furniture--Ireland--History--17th century.
- Furniture.
- Furniture--Ireland--History--18th century.
- Wood-carving--Ireland--History--17th century.
- Wood-carving.
- Wood-carving--Ireland--History--18th century.
- History.
- Ireland.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 323 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, [2007]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Furniture and Woodwork Up to the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 7
- Origins
- Early Wood Carving
- The Furnishing of Castles and Tower Houses
- Kilkenny Castle and its Inventories
- A Waterford Merchant's Inventory
- A Co. Kerry Castle Inventory
- An Elizabethan Planter's Inventory
- A Limerick Tower House Inventory
- A Gaelic Irish Earl's Inventory
- The Armada Table
- Seventeenth-Century Chimneypieces
- The Great Earl of Cork
- Other Inventories
- Chapter 2 The Restoration Period 23
- Ormonde Inventories
- Charleville
- Burton
- Late Seventeenth-Century Building and Decoration in Ireland
- Eyrecourt Kilkenny Castle
- The Fate of Elizabeth Freke
- Chapter 3 Carving in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries 33
- The Royal Hospital, Kilmainham
- St Michan's Church
- Cabragh House
- Beaulieu
- Stackallan
- St Mary's Church
- St Ann's Church
- Marsh's Library
- Trinity College Dublin
- Dr Steevens's Hospital
- St Olaf's Church
- St Finian's and St John's Churches
- Rathbeale Hall
- Santry House and Mount Ievers
- St Pappin's Church
- Damer House
- Platten Hall
- Singleton House
- Early Irish Auction Sales
- Marquetry Furniture
- Chapter 4 Ireland in the Second Quarter of the Eighteenth Century 59
- The Social Background
- Cultural Patriotism
- Guilds
- The New Taste in Architecture
- Castletown
- 10 Henrietta Street
- 9 Henrietta Street
- Cashel Palace
- John Houghton
- Russborough
- Howth Castle
- Carton
- Thomas Johnson in Ireland
- John Kelly
- Charles Coleman
- Glasnevin
- Summer Grove
- Rossanagh
- Castlecor
- Japanned Furniture
- Chapter 5 Furniture of the Mid-Eighteenth Century 99
- Furniture Woods
- Furniture Characteristics
- Seat Furniture
- Tables and Stands
- Case Furniture
- The Provost's House
- Richard Cranfield
- James Robinson
- The Bookers
- Furniture in the Provinces
- Irish Influence in America.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [314]-319) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0300117159
- 9780300117158
- OCLC:
- 64336179
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.