The colonial furniture of New England : A study of the domestic furniture in use in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (1892)
Lyon, Irving Whitall, 1840-1896 · Boston, New York : Houghton, Mifflin · leaf 102
ere, then, in our first view of the livery-cupboardin use we find it set out with golden and gildedbeakers, plate, and precious glasses. That this wasthe use to which it was put in other instances is ren-dered probable by the fact that it is the only kindof cupboard found in the halls and dining… … Fig. 17 PRESS CUPBOARD About i860 CUPBOARDS 51 whose inventory, dated 1582, is published by theSurtees Society. Both of these gentlemen had plate,the former a large amount, but neither had otherthan livery-cupboards in the hall or dining chambers.It is reasonable, therefore, to suppose that the…
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