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 330
are usuallyplain. Several chairs of this style preserved in Car-penters Hall, in Philadelphia, have their handlescarved as in this specimen. This is probably thevariety described in Andrew Gauteirs advertisementas sackbackd. Another very common variety of this family ofchairs, sometimes called the… … Fig. 75BANNISTER BACKED CHAIR IALF EIGHTEENTH CENTURY CHAIRS ■ 185 A chair of very light and graceful construction isshown in Fig. 86. These chairs are well known inNew England, but are not very common at thepresent day. The backs of some Windsor chairs are reenforcedby means of pieces which rise…
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