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 350
too dark,indeed, to be the wood of the American white oak,after full allowance has been made for the effects oftime. For this reason, and because the color corre-sponds so well to that of old Transatlantic oak, webelieve that this table was made in Europe andbrought to this country in the… … Fig. 79 CHIPPENDALE CHAIR Second half eighteenth centur TABLES 197 A chair table is mentioned in the inventory ofJohn Copse, of Watertown, Mass., made in 1644.How early they were made in Europe we do notknow, but in England certainly as early as 1558, inwhich year a round chaire table in the plour…
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