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. |
The cabriole legs with claw-and-ball feet, shaped splats, and yoke-shape crests echo English designs, but the exuberance of the curvaceous outlines is definitely Mexican. |
The exaggerated cabriole legs are thrust too far outward and are too slender given the size of the cabinet. |
It has trifid feet on cabriole legs without shells on the knees. |
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. |