Chats on old furniture : a practical guide for collectors (1906)
Hayden, Arthur, 1868-1946 · New York : F. A. Stokes · leaf 255
cate marquetry work. Ornament for its own sake was scrupulouslyeschewed by Sheraton. The essential supports anduprights and stretcher-rails and other componentparts of a piece of furniture were only decorated asportions of a preconceived whole. The legs weretapered the plain surfaces were inlaid… … Ky ferm„%,.yn «fMritrs. Haniflct, 6- Stns. OLD ENGLISH SKCRETAIRE.Rosewood and satinwcvxl. Drop-down front. duced the painted furniture into I-.,gland, and underSheraton it developed into an emulation of thefine work done by Watteau and Greuze in the daysof Marie Antoinette. SHERATON, ADAM,…
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