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 256
from time to time; and the chair of theapostle John Eliot, in the First Church at Dorchester,Mass., which is pictured in the first volume of Win-sors Memorial History of Boston. Besides the fournow referred to the writer has seen nine other exam-ples, has knowledge of eight more, making twenty-one,… … Fig. 56 TURNED CHAIR First half seventeenth century CHAIRS 143 therefore, be accurately traced and identified in theserecords because there were other turned, great, andflag-bottomed chairs in use at the same time. Theposts, which are very large in the older specimens,are almost invariably made of…
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