1. Furniture Styles

2. Legs: Cambriole

3. shaker
STYLE - Ladder back, simple, structural lines

4. Upholstered pieces: Lawson
A sofa with square back and arms at a lower level than the back.

5. Chair Backs: lyre

6. Decorative feature: reeding
Parallel lines of rounded molding
Associated with Sheraton

7. Case goods: buffet

8. Feet: Pad

9. Tables: pedestal
A table with a single center support

10. Chairs: Windsor

11. Case goods: buffet
A large sideboard with drawers and cupboards

12. Legs: Turned Circular leg sometimes with decoration
Elaborate associated with Victorian
Simple associated with
Early American

13. Chairs: wing

14. Case goods: wardrobe/armoire
A standing closet used for clothes

15. Chair backs: shield

16. Chairs: splatback
A chair with a slat of wood in the middle of the chair back.

17. Feet: Pad
Simple rounded carved foot
Associated with
Queen Anne

18. Decorative feature: turning

19. Carved claw grasping a ball Associated with
Feet: ball and claw
Carved claw grasping a ball
Associated with
Chippendale

20. Tables: Gate-leg
A table with one or two drop leaves that are supported when in use by a hinged leg swung out from the frame

21. Feet: Bracket

22. Upholstered pieces: camelback
A back with a hump-shaped curve on a sofa or other piece of furniture

23. Chair backs: splat

24. Upholstered pieces: tuxedo sofas
An upholstered sofa with slightly curved arms that are the same height as the back

25. Decorative feature: pediment

26. Upholstered pieces: ottoman
A low upholstered seat, or footstool, without a back or arms that typically serves also as a box, with the seat hinged to form a lid

27. Tables: pedestal

28. STYLE - Lyre back, splayed legs, laurel leaves
Duncan phyfe
STYLE - Lyre back, splayed legs, laurel leaves

29. A tall chest of drawers on legs
Case goods: high Boy
A tall chest of drawers on legs

30. Case goods: wardrobe/armoire

31. Case goods: secretary
A writing desk fitted with drawers, one of which can be pulled out and the front lowered to provide a flat writing surface.

32. Upholstered pieces: camelback

33. chippendale
STYLE - Ball and claw foot, ears, Chinese influence- black lacquer Japanning, camelback couch

34. An upright wooden chair without arms
Chairs: side
An upright wooden chair without arms

35. Chairs: splatback

36. STYLE - Square back, tapered legs
Sheraton
STYLE - Square back, tapered legs

37. Decorative Features: Finial

38. Legs: Cambriole Curved leg in the shape of an animal’s leg
Associated with
Queen Anne

39. Decorative feature: reeding

40. Queen Anne
STYLE - cabriole leg, pad foot, shell motif, wing chair

41. Decorative feature: fluting

42. Modern/contemporary
May use one or more materials in construction—glass, wood, metal and plastics, textiles

43. Feet: Bun

44. hepplewhite
STYLE - Shield back, tapered legs

45. Chairs: arm

46. Legs: Splayed
Leg with a concave shape
Associated with
Duncan Phyfe

47. Tables: Gate-leg

48. Early american
STYLE - turned legs, square, blocky with plank seat or cane seat

49. Upholstered pieces: Lawson

50. Legs: Turned

51. Chairs: side

52. Decorative feature: turning
An ornamental element of furniture produced by rotating a wood dowel on a lathe, and shaping the dowel with cutting tools

53. Upholstered pieces: tuxedo sofas

54. Legs: Tapered Straight leg gradually decreasing in width
Associated with
Sheraton
Hepplewhite

55. Feet: Bun Rounded foot, flatter than a ball foot Associated with
Early American
Queen Anne

56. Feet: Bracket Angular curved foot, usually used with case pieces
Associated with
Early American
Chippendale
Hepplewhite

57. Case goods: secretary

58. Chair Backs: lyre Lyre-shaped central splat
Associated with Duncan Phyfe

59. Chair backs: ladder
Chair back with equally spaced horizontal flat slats, either straight or curved
Associated with
Shaker

60. Legs: Tapered

61. Chair backs: splat
The vertical central element of a chair back. It may be carved, vase, or fiddle shaped
Vase shaped associated with Queen Anne and Chippendale

62. Chairs: ladderback

63. Chair backs: shield Shield shaped chair back
Associated with Hepplewhite

64. Decorative Features: Finial
Decorative turning affixed to the tops of case furniture, and chair and bed posts
Associated with
Early American
Queen Anne
Chippendale
Shaker

65. Case goods: high Boy

66. Legs: Splayed

67. Decorative feature: pediment
Ornamentation typically found on top of case goods
Could be broken, scroll
Associated with Chippendale

68. Decorative feature: fluting
Carved or molded vertical channels
Associated with
Hepplewhite
Sheraton
Duncan Phyfe

69. Upholstered pieces: ottoman

70. Chairs: Windsor
A wood chair whose back and sides consist of multiple thin, turned spindles that are attached to a solid, sculpted seat

71. Chairs: wing
A high-backed armchair with side pieces projecting from the back, originally in order to protect the sitter from drafts

72. Feet: ball and claw

73. Chairs: arm
A comfortable chair, typically upholstered, with side supports for a person’s arms

74. Chair backs: ladder

75. Victorian
STYLE - Very ornate, tufting, elaborate carvings on wood parts

76. Chairs: ladderback
A chair with a back consisting of two upright posts connected by horizontal slats