Don Mills, Ont. : Southam-MacLean Publications · leaf 536
eristic of the designing though of the LowCountries. Two fine chairs of this kind are shown in Fig. 3.Carved chairs had been common in the reign of CharlesII., a fashion that never afterwards lapsed. In oldprints illustrative of the Queen Anne age these high-backed, cane-panelled chairs are… … Fig. 13 vogue at its best. Figs. 4, 5 and 6 are at present in oneof the London museums. When the table-top is letdown there is disclosed some fine inlaid work of brightcoloring. Novel, too, is the chair shown in Fig. 5.As far back as the days of Elizabeth shell motives hadbeen common as decorative…
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