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 48
t centuries in the coun-tries of Northwestern Europe bordering upon thesea from Normandy to Norway. He says: The English word to carve, which isused alike for cutting, figure carving, and wood sculp-ture, indicates that the notch work was the begin-ning of all the carving technics of the North… … Fig. 6 CARVED OAKEN CHEST WITH ONE DRAWER 1680-1700 CHESTS 19 reach the highest degree of perfection in the firsthalf of the eighteenth century. The peculiarities of this style of carving are itsgeometric patterns, and the forms of the cuttings,which will be found to consist of two, three, and…
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