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 252
he top rail of its back for ornamental pegs,like the ones seen in the Harvard chair, but the pegsthemselves are missing. Another example of this style, resembling theAshmolean chair, was found and purchased in Ches-ter, England, in 1S86, by Mr. Henry F. Waters, thecelebrated genealogist, from whose… … Fig. 55CHAIR FROM A PAINTING BY JAN STEEN CHAIRS 141 our next illustration (Fig. 54). Cuts of this chairhave been published by different writers with histo-ries and dates widely at variance with one another.Its period is probably the same as that of the Har-vard chair, which it closely resembles,…
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