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Baccarat Founded in 1764, a leading French
glassworks. The first products were soda glass
tableware and window glass. High quality lead
crystal and decorative glassware started to be
produced from 1816. Particularly noted for
Millefiori paperweights and sulphides, which have
been popular and collectable from the mid -19th
Century.
Bacchus, George & Sons
Birmingham glassworks founded in the early
19th Century that produced some of the finest
pressed glass in Britain. The works also
specialised in cut, engraved and coloured
tableware and paperweights.
bachelor's chest A compact, low chest of drawers
made during the first half of the 18th Century. The
top folds out and forms a table.
back board The wooden backing to case furniture
or a framed mirror. Higher quality 18th and early
19th Century furniture usually has back boards.
Plywood became more popular from the late 19th
Century.
back plate The back of the pair of metal plates
which hold the mechanism of a clock in place.
They can sometimes be engraved with decorative
motifs or the makers name.
back screen Introduced in the early 19th Century, an
article normally of woven cane, that was attached
to the back of a dining chair to protect its user
against the heat from of a fire.
backstaff Navigational instrument that has rods
supporting two scaled arcs, this was invented
by an Englishman called John Davis in 1954.
The observer would stand with his back to
the sun and align one scale on the horizon,
the other on the shadow cast by its sighting
piece. Both the readings added together gave
the sun's height and then the latitude could be
calculated.
backstamp The mark printed on the underneath
of pottery wares, this term was used by commercial
potteries.
backstool An early form of an armless chair first
introduced in the late 16th Century. It is either a
three or four legged stool with a back extending
from the rear legs. For at this time the word chair
only applied to a seat that had arms. From the
early 18th Century the backstool became known
as a single or a side stool.
bacon cupboard A type of settle, that was made
up of a long bench with a panelled cupboard
doubling as a back rest, and often drawers set
beneath the seat. It was a common item of
farmhouse furniture.
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