Many of the early chairs had three carved splats or balusters in the back, and a feature which added greatly to comfort was the slight curve the backs were given instead of the perfectly straight backs of Jacobean days.
Sheraton's chair backs are rectangular in type, with urn splats, and splats divided into seven radiates, and also many other designs.
The different shapes of splats will often help in deciding the dates of their making, and its development is of great interest.
This should be made of walnut-wood, and the ends shaped after the manner of the solid splats in the simple chairs of the period.
Indeed such little differences as are expressed, say, in the splats and the legs may be said to break the line of uniformity and to produce an effect which is permanently pleasing and interesting.
The backs of Sheraton chairs had straight tops and several small splats joined to a cross-rail, and not to the seat.
They had backs with straight tops, rather like Sheraton chairs, and several small splats joining top rail to seat.
The splats have an upward movement and were joined to chair seats, and not to a cross-rail.
The splats in the chairs he made himself are of such accurate dimensions in relation to the open spaces on each side that this touch alone betrays the hand of the master, which is absent in the imitations of his followers.
The splats and balusters, and even the legs of some of his chairs, are inlaid with delicate marquetry work.
Their upright posts forming the open back can be treated with vertical splats divided by horizontal divisions, or they can, as in the ladder form, receive horizontal splats.
But the craftsman, while appreciating the delicacy of the cane back in adding lightness to the chair, circumvented his inability to work in cane by substituting thin vertical splats to give the necessary effect of transparency.
The arms always possessed a curious scroll, the backs had broad splats with curling shoulders, and often a broad bold ribbon pattern making two loops to fill up the top of the hoop at the back, with a carved shell at the point of intersection.
The massive walnut chairs with deep underframing and broad hoop backs departed from the solid splats of the Anne style and endeavoured to become less squat by the employment of banded ribbon-work, coarse, heavy, and ponderous in style.
The right-hand one, with arms, is composite in its character, and is in date about 1820, and exhibits a touch of the Sheraton slenderness of style in the splats and the round turning of arms.
But the back with the three splats and the coarsely carved top-rail betray the hand of the country craftsman following in oak the more graceful curves of the worker in walnut of the days of Charles II.
Among interesting types of chairs often with lingering traces of the Jacobean style and additional features of splats that may be regarded as standing on the threshold of the Chippendale period, corner chairs stand in a class alone.
Then the backs of his chairs are quite distinctive, whether the splats run up and down, or become cross-braces, or are elaborated into very ornamental ribbon-work.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "splats" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
