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 202
gplp§|fes» Fig. 44 CARVED OAKEN DESK About 1650 … Fig. 43CARVED DESK Dated 1654 DESKS 111 ing legs, were brought to the proper hight for useby being placed on some other object, as a table orchest. This is the traditional conception of these olddesks. It is also consistent with the definitions ofthe word found in the dictionaries of the early…
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