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 266
61 is shown an old chair with its seat andback of stamped leather in a very fair state of pre-servation. The leather in both places was drawnover the wooden frame, without padding underneath,and fastened with large and small copper nails whichare still in place. Indeed, the only noteworthy lossthat… … Fig. 58 TURNED CHAIR About !650 | CHAIRS I49 is kept in the library. It was presented to the col-lege about forty years ago by the late Thomas Win-throp Coit, to whom it had descended from GovernorJoseph Wanton, of Rhode Island, one of his ances-tors. Another very good chair of this period is…
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