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 178
ived from the burrof the tree. After 1760 black walnut chests ofdrawers, like all other kinds, are mentioned muchless often, but this can be partly explained by thefact that fewer descriptive terms were used in theinventories of these clays than formerly. The celebrated London cabinet - maker,… … Fig. 36A BANDY-LEGGED CHEST OF DRAWERS CHESTS OF DRAWERS 97 class with the white Virginia walnut. The black Vir-ginia was much in use for cabinet work about fortyor fifty years since in England, but is now quite laidaside since the introduction of mahogany. It was used in England for furniture…
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