The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour, & history (1911)
Foley, Edwin · New York, G.P. Putnam's sons · leaf 306
224 DECORATIVE FURNITURE leaves and, after throwing away the infusion,served them as a vegetable! At the Restoration also gambling with cards(those Devils Books of the Puritans) such asPharaoh (Faro) Ombre, Basset and, at a slightly-later date, whist (whisk or swobbers) speedilybecame the vogue… … GATE-LEG TABLE. CUPBOARDS The traceried fronts of openwork dole cupboards or almeries, whichwere used as receptacles for the gifts—doles—of food to the necessitous,were usually perforated when of pre-Stuart date, but the seventeenth-century woodworkers usually preferredto construct the front of…
Furniture · Decoration and ornament
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