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 96
tle doubt that suchwere in use in this country. There is, however, hereas in England, a style of cupboard differing from theabove only in having its upper part inclosed. Oneis shown in Fig. 15. It belongs to Mr. William C.Waters, of Salem, Mass. We are strongly inclined to believe that thesepieces… … Fig. 16COURT-CUPBOARD Second half seventeenth century CUPBOARDS 47 and faience, which were also displayed from the cup-boards head. On the continent of Europe suchpieces were called dressoirs, and that they answeredthe same purpose in England and in this countryseems altogether likely. Unless we…
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