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1 Furniture Legs and Feet

2 Bell Quiz 1 2 3 6 4 5

3 Bell Quiz 3 Duncan Phyfe 4 Queen Anne 1 Early American 2 Victorian
6 Windsor Chair 5 Sheraton

4 Ball and Claw Feet Furniture foot fashioned to represent a bird's claw gripping a ball.

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7 Pad Feet Pad Feet are rounded flat pads or disks at the end of furniture legs.

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10 Bracket Feet A simple corner foot that can have an
s-shaped curve or an I-shape curve

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12 Bun Feet Rounded or balled feet

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14 Cabriole leg A furniture leg that curves out at the middle and then tapers inward just above an ornamental foot. Its shape was based on the legs of certain four-footed animals.

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17 Turned Legs that have been shaped using various tools while a block of wood is spun on a lathe.

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19 Splayed Leg A type of splayed furniture leg, which flares out in a concave shape.

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22 Tapered A leg that becomes smaller and thinner towards the bottom.
Sometimes has a spade foot.

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26 Furniture Decorative Features

27 Pediment A decorative design detail adapted from architecture and applied to furniture

28 Furniture Pediments

29 Pediment

30 Finials on Chairs A finishing ornament for a pediment, post, or spire.

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32 Reeding Rows of parallel convex beads used to embellish a leg.

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34 Fluting Fluting- The carving of parallel grooves into wood or other solid materials

35 Turning Decorative spindles formed by turning a piece of wood on a lathe and cutting designs into the wood with a sharp knife as the piece spins.

36 Turning


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