Gay, Eben Howard, b. 1858 · New York, Longmans, Green, & Co. · leaf 196
lections, whichI have always envied them; together with a wealth of tables,chairs, tall clocks, fire-screens, bureaus, girandoles, torcheres,and commodes that are positively a feast for the eye! ThenI have secured statuary marble fire-places of the period forevery important room on the lower floor,… … POLE-SCREEN Chippendale style. The screen is woven in Mortlake tapestry, withpearl-edge frame, which may be raised and lowered on central spmdle.Cabriole legs with shell on knee and rat-claw feet grasping ball.
Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-1779 · Furniture -- Collectors and collecting
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