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 22
fthis article of furniture during the colonial period. In looking through the early records preserved inour probate courts we find chests mentioned in al-most every inventory from the first. The most fre-quent entry is the simple word chest without anyqualifying adjective; and the price, if given,… … Fig. 1 CARVED OAKEN CHEST First half seventeenth century CHESTS 3 Spruce chests. Oak chests. Ship chests. Carved chests. Chests with one or two drawers. Cypress chests. Furniture made by a joiner and wainscot furni-ture are varieties which have been mentioned in theEnglish inventories from very…
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