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 142
e of oak. It was lately bought inMiddlefield, Conn., and is now the property of Mr.Walter Hosmer. We believe that certain characteristics of the NewEngland chests of drawers from the first settlementsdown to the latter part of the century are fairlyrepresented in these two pieces ; that is to say,… … Fig. 25 OAKEN CHEST OF DRAWERSSecond half seventeenth century CHESTS OF BRA WERS 75 There is, however, hardly enough difference be-tween the chests of drawers here shown and thecarved and paneled chests of the same period toaccount for the marked difference in their valua-tion. We have seen that…
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