Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 157
e is a plain surface of wood, as on table-top, sideboard door,or foot-board, if it is not covered with the single deeply moulded panel, orwith a multitude of little square panels, it is apt to be made of narrowpieces of wood, laid crosswise, meeting each other pyramidally at one endand retreating… … Eastlake Chair. THE EASTLAKE. 153 grain being supposed ornamental in itself, much after the idea — on avastly enlarged scale—of the Italian tarsiatura, where some of the shad-ing of the inlay is obtained by the opposite laying of the grain. Theother most frequent ornaments are the insertion of…
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