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 28
, andbecause, among the many hundred different chestshere recorded, frequent mention is made of othervarieties, such as Flanders, cypress, iron-bound, andwainscot chests. The oldest carved and paneled chests in NewEngland are believed to have been made withoutdrawers underneath, and without the… … Fig. 2 CARVED OAKEN CHESTFirst half seventeenth century CHESTS 7 times. The acanthus-like foliage and the archescarved on its front suggest that this chest was madein the reign-of James I. of England, or early in thatof his successor. The wood is oak except the lid,which is made of yellow pine in…
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