Chats on old furniture : a practical guide for collectors (1906)
Hayden, Arthur, 1868-1946 · New York : F. A. Stokes · leaf 40
meaning as referring to styles more or lessprevalent when those personages lived. As there isno record of the makers of most of the old Englishfurniture, and as a piece of furniture cannot be judgedas can a picture, the date of manufacture cannot beprecisely laid down, hence the vagueness of much… … Frame of wood, carved with floral scrollwork, with female terminal figures.Italian ; late sixteenth century. {Victoria and Albert Museum.) THE NEW YORKPUBUC UBRARY ASTOR, LENOX ITILDE-N FOTi#DATI0KS RENAISSANCE ON THE CONTINENT 37 walnut, and of mahogany, inasmuch as the oakfurniture extended well…
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