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 146
3. A chest of drawers cloth and cushion uponit, 1690. The significance of these cupboard cloths andcushions has been pointed out. The tables whichfrom this time were made en stiite with chests ofdrawers, may have had their origin quite as muchfrom the tendency to build the latter higher as frommere… … Fig. 26A CHEST OF DRAWERS 1680-1700 CHESTS OF DRAWERS 77 purpose something else had to be provided. Theadvent of these tables may therefore mark the epochwhen it became the fashion to build higher chests ofdrawers. An example of one of the styles of this period,from the collection of Mr. Henry F.…
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