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 308
wnedin Hartford, Conn. Mr. Edwin Simons of that city,who also has one of the set, can remember them asfar back as fifty years. Chippendale chairs with straight legs in front, andwith backs resembling the one shown in Fig. 80, arethose the oftenest seen in New England, and, webelieve, elsewhere in… … Fig. 70 HIGH-BACKED LEATHER CHAIR Late seventeenth or early eighteenth century CHAIRS 173 is the property of the American Antiquarian Societyat Worcester, Mass. It is said to have been part ofthe household furniture of Governor John Hancock.It was presented to the Society in July, 1838, byJohn…
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