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If you are a collector of antiques, and of course, if you are a collector of antique furniture, Victoria, which has seen many Photo of Victoria, Victoria, chairs and other pieces on cabriole legs. Cabriole leg is actually a feature of Victorian furniture and coins dating from the 18th century that deserves not only an article but an entire book devoted to it. I 'll start with the article.

Cabriole leg is a support furniture with two curves, one above and one below. The upper curve is convex, which means that the slope outwards. The bottom is concave and tilted toward the inside. Unless the two curves, sometimes called arcs, unfold and then good, not duplicate it.

Also, the axes of the two curves should be in the same plane. If geometry is a little rusty to understand that there is another way to explain it. The leg, "" should look like the leg of a living creature. The second curve can not go on the side. Must remain in the "blueprint" of the former as an ankle and knee. Just think like a leg of flesh and blood, and how start making sense.

The ancient Chinese, Greeks and Egyptians are all said to have used the antics of design. In Europe, its use has died before the age of the media and did not reappear in France in the early 18th century. From there it quickly spread to England in Queen Anne. He has also gained ground in the Netherlands.

As an element of style, cabriole leg caught so fast and complete, which came almost to define the 18th century furniture. When he arrived in America in the 18th century, became so frequent that some refer to this period design of American furniture as the period of capers.

In England, as I mentioned earlier, the cabriole leg found balance during the period of Queen Anne (although some earlier designs originated in French exile Daniel Marot, life in England and Holland). Chippendale design when it ended, the cabriole leg has grown more difficult. Often the legs convertible from the late 18th century with a ball and claw. It really is typical that some people wrongly consider to be a ball and claw capers.

During the Victorian era, In 1840, Cabriole leg became a feature of neo-Rococo. Rococo Revival "relaunch" the style of the 18th century, taking into account the particular style French court of Louis XV. Rococo Victorian cabriole leg was heavier and more ornate than his predecessor the 18th century, and an S-toe shift became common. In the U.S., the design of rococo furniture with cabriole legs has been the hallmark of the great cabinetmaker John Henry Belter.

The inspiration of the trap leg, so widespread and popular as it has been, is not a question of understanding, however. It is undisputed that the design was inspired by the shape of the leg of an animal, in particular, an ungulate (Walker-toe shoes), as a horse or a goat, but I seen little development of the statement. I think that is correct, but that's something else to think.

The word is French caper. There is nothing like a leap into the cab ballet, where one leg is tucked away against the other leg is extended. The word is also caper associated with increased horsepower. The first use of the English word caper links for jumping horses and goats. Dictionaries today whether French or English, to define or jumping antics and frolics, a sort of playfulness or jumping. What do we do with that?

First, the root word caper caper goes back to the Latin word which means goat, as in Capricorn. Capers jumps like a goat, if you want to get literal.

Now, I went online and found a video that someone took his goats jumping over bars. Has my good fortune, he stopped the video several times, the goats were in mid-jump. You know what? The front legs nestled in the look suspicious Similar to many curved legs prancing on furniture - the heaviest part of the summit, with the knee bent backwards and ankle thin dished to forward.

It is troubling that the knee is bent under the body and the points of the ankle to the outside? Not at all. Remember, one leg furniture is not suspended in air. On the ground support the weight. The curve should go higher weight in the weight transfer on the ground with the least stress.

Putting this evidence led me to believe that the original inspiration of the cabriole leg was the foreleg a goat jumping.

David Mehl
Independent Researcher, Writer, and Publisher
https://www.antiquevictorianfurnitureblog.com