Chats on old furniture : a practical guide for collectors (1906)
Hayden, Arthur, 1868-1946 · New York : F. A. Stokes · leaf 220
of the nobility. One wonderswhat furniture was in common use b)- the peasantryin France. In England, too, much of the furnitureleft for the examination of posterity- was made forthe use of the wealth)- classes. In Jacobean days,settles and chairs, especially the Yorkshire andDerbyshire types, were… … OLIVER GOLDSMITHS CHAIR. Wood, painted green, with circular seat, carved arms, and highback. Bequeathed by Oliver Goldsmith in 1774 to his friend,Dr. Hawes. [Betknal Green Museum.) title-page of his great work, the Director, published 1^10 (HATS ON OIJ) FrKXITlTRE in 1754, he says that his designs…
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