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INCE, WILLIAM

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 348 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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INCE, See also:WILLIAM , See also:English 18th See also:century See also:furniture designer and cabinetmaker. He was one of the most successful imitators of See also:Chippendale, although his See also:work was in many respects lighter. He helped, indeed, to build the See also:bridge between the massive andoften florid See also:style of Chippendale and the more boudoir-like forms of See also:Hepplewhite. Although many of his designs were poor and extravagant, his best work was very See also:good indeed. His chairs are sometimes mistaken for those of Chippendale, to which, however, they are much inferior. He greatly affected the See also:Chinese and See also:Gothic tastes of the second See also:half of the 18th century. He was for many years in See also:partnership in Broad See also:Street, See also:Golden Square, See also:London, with See also:Thomas See also:Mayhew (q.v.), in collaboration with whom he published a See also:folio See also:volume of ninety-five plates, with letterpress in English and See also:French under the See also:title of The Universal See also:System of See also:Household Furniture (undated, but probably about 1762). INCE-IN-MAKERFIELD, an See also:urban See also:district in the Ince See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Lancashire, See also:England, adjoining the See also:borough of See also:Wigan. Pop. (1901) 21,262. The See also:Leeds and See also:Liverpool See also:Canal intersects the township. There are large collieries, See also:iron-See also:works, forges, railway See also:wagon works, and See also:cotton See also:mills.

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Hall, a beautiful example of half-timbered See also:architecture.

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