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 290
asrepresented in Fig. 73, was in use in China as earlyas 254 a. d. The claw and ball represent the clawof the Dragon clasping the pearl. This illustration and these facts are taken fromthe Chinese work entitled Hwang Chao Li KhiTu Shih, or Drawings and Descriptions of Imple-ments and Equipages of… … Fig. 65 CANE CHAIR Late seventeenth or early eighteenth century CHAIRS 163 Magdalenes Church at Hildesheim, and the Roman-esque candelabrum in the Musee de Cluny, in Paris,show that the bandy leg was in use in Europe inthe Middle Ages. It is, however, highly probablythat the fashion of bandy legs…
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