Newport slipper foot?

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wallysandcrab

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I'm making test legs for my Newport slipper foot highboy.  Does anyone have any photos of one of these feet (preferably from a case piece)?  I don't know in detail how the foot is shaped.  My guess is that one draws some sort of lozenge shape on the bottom of the foot and cuts that out, but then there must be more shaping around the ankle and heel.

Any help appreciated.

John
 
John, Jeff Greene has a couple of good pictures (pages 235, 237) of a slipper foot High Chest in his "American Furniture of the 18th Century." There does not appear to be any unusual shaping around the heel and ankle. It's a very delicate foot.  I can scan & send pictures if you'd like. John McA.
 
John:
I have those pictures, but thanks anyway.  I'm looking for something close up.  He has a pretty good photo of one on page 161 which is pretty close, but I want to change the line at the front of the ankle to less curvature where it transitions to the foot.  Like on the Christopher Townsend highboy I'm trying to copy.  Attractivist slipper foot legs ever.  But whereas, JG's foot looks like essentially five (no, three!) saw cuts, I think the Townsend leg takes some extra shaping.  (No knock on JG).  I dunno.

I did a slipper foot once (tea table), and some turdbucket characterized it as a "duck foot".  It might have been, but that didn't save him.  "Still got the shovel."
 
Here's a lowboy. You can change the size of the picture if it comes out too small.

http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/WebZ/FETCH?sessionid=01-50389-519635232:recno=221:resultset=2:format=F:next=html/nffull.html:bad=error/badfetch.html&entityimageSize=x

 
Bob, link is non functional, it is based on *YOUR* session at the server. Try downloading the pic and reuploading to here.
Mike
 
Oops. Sorry. Try this one.

http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/DLDecArts/data/images/Furniture/xlarge/1978001ax.jpg

Here's the main page. Lots of good pictures that you can resize.
http://decorativearts.library.wisc.edu/ (click on the Chipstone and Longridge Collections link)
 
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