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 116
that we have noted, showing,as has already been pointed out, that decorative de-tails, such as carving, applied ornaments, etc., wereseldom employed in the old records to designate par-ticular pieces. As a court-cupboard also occurs inthe inventory, we may infer that it did not haveturned columns,… … Fig. 20CUPBOARD WITH DRAWERS 1680-1700 CUPBOARDS 59 A cupboard with drawers has been mentioned asa variety of the style represented in Figs. 17 and 18.Another kind of cupboard with drawers is found inNew England, an example of which is shown in Fig.20. It is now the property of Yale University,…
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