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 300
d aboutchair, half round chair. But of all these and sim-ilar designations, the one the most frequently metwith is the fourth, namely, round about chair. They were made, some very plain and cheap, ofthe commoner woods, with flag bottoms: othersmuch better, of black walnut, mahogany, or cherry,with… … Fig. 68 CANE CHAIR Late seventeenth or early eighteenth century CHAIRS 169 rarely, one is seen with a piece rising from its backas far above the arms as these are above the seat.This back piece is in open work, and gives to suchchairs a very picturesque appearance. Roundabout chairs were desirable…
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