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 86
lustration. They are alike, and it is believedwere made by Colledge when he built the hall in1670, after the great fire. Their dimensions are asfollows: Hight, to the top of the eagles head, ninefeet; width, thirty-six and one half inches; depth ofthe shelves, ten and one half inches; depth of… … Fig. 14COURT-CUPBOARD III HALL OF CHRIST CHURCH COLLEGE, OXFORD 1590-1625 CUPBOARDS 41 up from the floor. It is still the custom to place cer-tain portions of the gold and silver plate on thesecupboards when the Company dines in the Hall.One of these cupboards is shown in Fig. 13, froma faithful…
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