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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 106

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d by Mr.George T. Robinson, in his very valuable and inter-esting papers on furniture, published in The ArtJournal during the year 1881, as follows : — It was of rude construction, consisting of three stages, sup-ported by four legs, and having beneath its middlemost shelf ashallow drawer for table… … Fig. 18A PRESS CUPBOARD 1650-76 CUPBOARDS 53 boards colored black, such as their turned pillars,mouldings, and applied ornaments. But a red cup-board and a red table in the same apartment sug-gest that they were made to go together. A similar instance is found in the Boston records(Suffolk- Deeds,…

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