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 390
th tables are, green, green cloth, greenbroadcloth, Dorneck, Turkey wrought, calico, and oc-casionally Arras. The item, 3 Arras Table cloths20 s. each, ^3, occurs in 1654, in the inventory ofMr. Augustine Walker, of Charlestown. If it shouldseem a little strange to hear table covers called… … m < TABLES 219 about the middle of the eighteenth century, to thecoverings for floors. The table dishes of our early colonial ancestorswere chiefly pewter and wooden, with some alchemy,earthen, china, glass, and silverware. Tin and lat-ten dishes were also in use, but rather for culinarythan…
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