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 82
akespeare, Chapman, and Cotgrave, saw thesepieces in use: — With a lean visage, like a carvd faceOn a court-cupboard. Iter Boreale. 1618-21. (Gilchrist.) So far as we know there are no cupboards in ex-istence that are known to have been called court-cup-boards in the sixteenth and seventeenth… … Rg. 13CUPBOARD IN STATIONERS HALL, LONDON 1670-80 CUPBOARDS 39 The court cupboard was the ancient sideboard: it was acumbrous piece of furniture, with stages or shelves, graduallyreceding like stairs, to the top, whereon the plate was displayedat festivals. . . . There is a print in a curious work…
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