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 156
with turnedlegs, usually six in number, united by stretchersrunning all the way around just above the floor;and those mounted upon four bandy-shaped legs. A very good example of the first variety is shownin Fig. 27. Its hight is sixty-four inches. It ismade of the wood of the plane or sycamore… … Fig. 28A SIX-LEGGEO CHEST OF DRAWERS CHESTS OF DRAWERS 83 taken as a whole is a composition made up of theold-fashioned low chest of drawers raised upon atable. It belongs to H. S. Fuller, M. D., of Hart-ford, Conn. It was bought a few years since inWethersfield, Conn. The second example (Fig. 28)…
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