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 262
the Dennis family. The other chair wasowned in 1872 by E. W. Farley, of Newcastle, Me.,but he has since given it to Bowdoin College, whereit is now used as the Presidents chair. Wainscot chairs were quite common in Englandand Scotland in the seventeenth century, and maynow be seen in many of the… … Fig. 57 TURNED CHAIR Early seventeenth century CHAIRS 147 In some of these chairs the space below the seatis inclosed by means of panels let into the frame-work, and panels also fill the spaces between theseat and the arms on each side. An example of thiskind, dated 1652, is now preserved in the…
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