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 182
Theyare not frequently mentioned in the inventories, andexisting specimens are comparatively scarce. Themost that are found to - day are double chests ofdrawers, sometimes with shaped fronts and archedtops, as in the specimen shown in Fig. 40. It is believed that mahogany began to be used… … Fig. 38 JAPANNED CHEST OF DRAWERS About 1735 CHESTS OF DRAWERS 99 sought for as a medicinal substitute for the Jesuits bark, andmany treatises on its therapeutic virtues were written. Aboutthe year 1720 some planks of it were brought to Dr. Gibbon byhis brother, a West Indian captain, and the…
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