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 172
is chapter. Chests of drawers had been in use in Italy, France,Spain, and Portugal for some time before they wereintroduced into England. They therefore receivedthe impress of the art of these countries, and theirdecoration doubtless followed that of the chests andcabinets of the day. Indeed, they…
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