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 152
sts of drawers of intermediate hight,— thirty-nine to forty-six inches, — because it is notcertain that all the cupboards with cloths and cush-ions that figure in the old inventories were as highas those illustrated in the chapter devoted to cup-boards. But in addition to the probability thatthese… … Fig. 27A SIX-LEGGED CHEST OF DRAWERS CHESTS OF DRAWERS Si period in which we find many other indications ofthe existence of high chests of drawers. One of these indications is found in the pricesgiven. With a single exception the highest pricenoted for any chest of drawers inventoried before…
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