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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 369

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s tostrengthen the under frame. To render the oakenseat more comfortable, cushions were, as in England,used, judging from such items as agreate cheare and quoshen, found in theinventories of the seventeenth and earlyeighteenth centuries. We have alreadypaid tribute to the naive inscriptionupon that… … WILUAM PENNS CHAIR.IVDEPEXDENCE HALL,PHILADELPHIA.

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