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The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history (1910)

Foley, Edwin · London : T.C. and E.C. Jack · leaf 141

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wagon type. In old country farms and cottages, fortunate enough to stillretain and value these relics ofbygone days, they are known asbread and cheese cupboards, thetradition of their original use thussurviving. Court Cupboards, which madetheir debut in Elizabethan days,were simply short cupboards… … TUDOE-JACOBEAN OAK COITRT CTTPBOAIID. BRITISH DECORATIVE FURNITURE—TUDOR 91 usually, at first, enclosed in both, as in the Newark exampleshown in Colour Plate No. 12; the upper division was recessed, itscornice being supported by a turned column. This column was, inlater varieties, reduced to a…

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