Minimal hand-carving blended the narrow taper of the leg into the foot turning and created the semblance of a carved cabriole leg at low cost. |
Plate IV shows one of two known colonial North Carolina bottle cases, both with cabriole legs. |
The simple rectangular front legs of the earlier type, originally a continuation of the arm support, have been supplanted here by cabriole legs adorned with carved masks. |
You'd see a double cabriole and next day you'd go into the studio and think, if he could do this then I'll try! |
The legs of his earlier furniture were cabriole, and later they were straight. |
It has cabriole legs headed with a gilt brass-winged lion mask and paw sabots. |