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 218
eneral, of the same style andshape; all are fastened to the main piece in thesame manner; in short, they differ from each otherin point of size only. One of the quaintest of the old scrutoirs found inNew England is shown in Fig. 49, with its lid closed.It was picked up in Glastonbury, Conn., in… … Fig. 48 SCRUTOIR Early eighteenth century DESKS 121 a half inches, which is about three inches less thanthe average. This, with the steepness of the lid andthe gracefulness of its legs, gives to this piece anunusually light and airy appearance. The overlap-ping edges of its drawers and the absence…
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