Illustrated Architecture Dictionary ......................... Illustrated FURNITURE Glossary

Bellflower

Classical floral motif of 3 or 5 narrow pointed petals in bell shape, carved or inlaid

A popular 18th Century carved motif used as a furniture and interior enrichment.

The decoration is based on conventional bell-shaped flowers or catkins, used in continuous chain or swag or in graduated size as a vertical pendant. It is similar to the "husk" design.

Seen in American Hepplewhite and Sheraton, notably Maryland furniture.

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Examples from Buffalo:

• Illustration above: Horace Reed House  Fireplace
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• 678 Main Street  Exterior terra cotta
  
  
• Edward Harvey House, 91 Jewett Parkway Fireplace
  
  
• Griggs House, East Aurora Exterior panel
  
  
• Minot Tanner House Electric wall sconce
  
  
• 143 Linwood Avenue Ornament on newel

• 143 Linwood Avenue Ornament on swan's neck pediment
  
  
• Sattler Theatre
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• Furniture: Hepplewhite sideboard - Private collection, Buffalo, NY
  
  
• Furniture: stencil - Hitchcock style side chair - Amherst Museum

• Furniture: Adamesque Neoclassical tall post bed - Georgian House Museum, Edinburgh, Scotland
  
  

Other examples:

• Cathedral,Catania, Sicily Exterior pilaster
  
  
• Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France Exterior panel
  
  
• Furniture: Federal mirror - MacKay Homestead, Genesee Country Village, & Museum
  
  
• Furniture: 20th century reproduction Hepplewhite card table - MacKay Homestead, Genesee Country Village, & Museum
  
  
• Wedgewood pottery - Ariana Swiss Museum of Ceramics and Glass, Geneva, Switzerland