Household furniture in genteel taste for the year 1760 : containing upwards of 180 designs on 60 copper plates ... with scales
Household Furniture in Genteel Taste is a 1760 London furniture pattern book printed for Robert Sayer, offering designs for cabinetmakers and gentry of the period, with the names of Chippendale, Ince and Manwaring linked to its subject. Its engraved plates show library tables, a commode, French chairs and a cabinet with scales, drawn in precise outline with light hatched shading. A designer could take from them the serpentine curves, scrolled carved brackets and rococo ornament typical of mid-eighteenth-century English furniture.
