Haut-Boy

See High-Boy.

Henry Havard

Author of the French standard work on furniture, "Dictionnaire de l'Ameublement et de la Decoration depuis le XIIIme siecle jusqu'a nos jours," and of "Les Boulle" in the series of "Artistes Celebres."

Arthur Hayden

A popular writer on furniture and author of "Chats on Old Furniture, A Practical Guide for Collectors," in several editions, and other works.

Heart-Shape Chair Back

This form of back, like the shield-back, was characteristic of the Hepplewhite School.

Henri II

See France, Kings of.

George Hepplewhite (Sometimes Wrongly Spelt Heppelwhite)

Little is known of him, but it seems probable that he was apprenticed to Gillow of Lancaster, and eventually got together a considerable business in Cripplegate before his death in 1786. His widow Alice continued the business under the name of A. Hepplewhite & Co., and in 1788 published "The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterers' Guide," with further editions in 1789 and 1794. The style of furniture associated with his name is characterized by perfection of workmanship, lightness of construction, and elegance of form, with curvilinear tendencies. These characteristics are specially noticeable in his chairs with shield and heart-shaped backs carved with wheat-ears, honeysuckle, swags of drapery, fern leaves, and Prince of Wales's feathers.

Herringbone Work

Woodwork, brickwork, or stonework in which the material is so laid aslant that the alternate courses point in opposite directions. Bands of marquetry or other inlay on furniture were often herringboned.

High-Boy

A piece of furniture of Dutch origin introduced into England in the time of William and Mary, consisting of a chest of drawers mounted on a low-boy or dressing-table furnished with a long drawer or two drawers side by side. It was popular in England until about the end of the Decorated Queen Anne period, but in America it was a vogue during the whole of the eighteenth century. When the chest of drawers is mounted and fixed on another set of drawers of similar design, the entire piece is generally described as a "tall-boy."

Hinge

A metal device, consisting of two bars or plates pivoted on a pin upon which a door, lid, or flap hangs and turns. In cabinet-making the ordinary butt-hinge is most frequently used the two plates of which are fixed inside the woodwork, the pivot alone being visible. In some of the best work means are adopted to hide the hinge entirely. Up to Jacobean times hinges were often copied by cabinet-makers from church doors or other buildings, the long bars or plates being visible. Sometimes one plate was fixed outside and the other inside the article. In lacquer cabinets the doors were often, for the sake of ornament, provided with a larger number of hinges than was necessary, and were elaborately shaped, chased and pierced. In these cases both plates of the hinges were visible, and the pivot was at the angle of the cabinet.

Hock-Leg

A cabriole leg with a broken curve on the inside of the knee.