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ID: 300040858 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300040858			Record Type: concept

Marlborough legs (<legs by form>, legs (furniture components), ... Components (hierarchy name))

Note: English term for straight or tapering square legs, sometimes with a plinth foot. Used on American furniture from the mid-18th century, often with the inside edge chamfered.

Terms:

Marlborough legs (preferred,C,U,English-P,D,U,PN)

Marlborough leg (C,U,English,AD,U,SN)

legs, Marlboro (C,U,English,UF,U,N)

legs, Marlborough (C,U,English,UF,U,N)

legs, rectangular (C,U,English,UF,U,N)

legs, square (C,U,English,UF,U,N)

legs, straight (C,U,English,UF,U,N)

Marlboro legs (C,U,English,UF,U,N)

rectangular legs (C,U,English,UF,U,N)

square legs (Marlborough legs) (C,U,English,UF,U,N)

straight legs (C,U,English,UF,U,N)

Marlboroughpoten (C,U,Dutch-P,D,U,U)

Marlboroughpoot (C,U,Dutch,AD,U,U)

kannelierte Beine (C,U,German,D,PN)

kanneliertes Bein (C,U,German-P,AD,SN)

patas de sección cuadrada (C,U,Spanish-P,D,U,PN)

pata de sección cuadrada (C,U,Spanish,AD,U,SN)

Facet/Hierarchy Code: V.PJ

Hierarchical Position:

Objects Facet

.... Components (hierarchy name) (G)

........ components (objects parts) (G)

............ <components by specific context> (G)

................ furnishings components (G)

.................... furniture components (G)

........................ <furniture legs and leg components> (G)

............................ legs (furniture components) (G)

................................ <legs by form> (G)

.................................... Marlborough legs (G)

Additional Notes:

Dutch ..... Term voor rechte of taps toelopende vierkante poten, soms met een zuilvoet. Wordt gebruikt aan Amerikaans meubilair uit het midden van de 18e eeuw, vaak met een afgeschuinde binnenrand.

German ..... Englischer Begriff für gerade oder sich verjüngende quadratische Beine, manchmal mit einem Sockelfuß. Verwendet bei amerikanischen Möbel ab der Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts, die Beine stehen oft schräg zur Innenkante.

Sources and Contributors:

kannelierte Beine............	[IfM-SMB-PK]
................................	AAT-Deutsch (2012-)

kanneliertes Bein............	[IfM-SMB-PK Preferred]
................................	Meiner u.a., Möbel des Spätbiedermeier (2008) 114
................................	Museum für angewandte Kunst, Möbel: Gotik bis Jugendstil (1999) 331
................................	Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Europäische Möbel von der Gotik bis zum Jugendstil (1976) 138

legs, Marlboro............	[VP]
.............................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules

legs, Marlborough............	[VP]
................................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules

legs, rectangular............	[VP]
................................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules

legs, square............	[VP]
.......................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules

legs, straight............	[VP]
.............................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules

Marlboro legs............	[VP]
..........................	Montgomery, American furniture: Federal Period (1966) illustration, 71
..........................	Oxford Companion to the Decorative Arts (1975) 559

Marlborough leg............	[VP]
.............................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules

Marlborough legs............	[VP Preferred]
.............................	Fairbanks and Bates, American Furniture (1981) illustration, 533
.............................	Fleming and Honour, Dictionary of the Decorative Arts (1977) 513
.............................	Hayward and Kirkham, William and John Linnell (1980) Vol. 1, 138
.............................	Random House Unabridged Dictionary (1993)
.............................	Schwartz, Chairs, Tables, Sofas, Beds (1982) 445
.............................	Watson, History of Furniture (1976) GLOS, On Eng. & Am. chairs and tables; a straight leg, sometimes chamgered on the inner corner...
.............................	Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1961)

Marlboroughpoot............	[RKD, AAT-Ned]
.............................	AAT-Ned (1994-)

Marlboroughpoten............	[RKD, AAT-Ned Preferred]
.............................	AAT-Ned (1994-)

pata de sección cuadrada............	[CDBP-SNPC Preferred]
.........................................	TAA database (2000-)

patas de sección cuadrada............	[CDBP-SNPC]
............................................	Comité, Plural del término en singular

rectangular legs............	[VP]
.............................	Hayward, World Furniture (1965)

square legs (Marlborough legs)............	[VP]
.....................................................	Comstock, American Furniture (1962) 431; square legs
.....................................................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules

straight legs............	[VP]
..........................	Comstock, American Furniture (1962) 385


Subject: .....	[CDBP-SNPC, IfM-SMB-PK, RKD, AAT-Ned, VP]
............	AAT-Ned (1994-)


Note:
English	..........	[VP]
	..........	Fleming and Honour, Dictionary of the Decorative Arts (1977)
Dutch	..........	[RKD, AAT-Ned]
	..........	AAT-Ned (1994-)
German	..........	[IfM-SMB-PK]
	..........	IfM Berlin

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