The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history (1910)
Foley, Edwin · London : T.C. and E.C. Jack · leaf 98
victimsof the iconoclast of the Reformation, or hisCromwellian prototype. Much ink has been spent over the vexedquestions of the origins, functions, and re-lations of the various forms of cupboard.The ^vi-iter longs to join in the fray, andindeed has composed, and destroyed, a mostexcellent… … PART OF OAK DOOR, PROBABLY FROMA CUPBO^VRD OR CREDENCE. 56 DECORATIVE FURNITURE Upon the domestication of decorative furniture, ecclesiastical typessuch as the credence and the almery were adopted generally in thehome; and when the Renaissance arrived its ornament was crudelygrafted upon the Gothic…
Furniture · Decoration and ornament
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