The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour, & history (1911)
Foley, Edwin · New York, G.P. Putnam's sons · leaf 357
le of the seventeenthcentury make no reference to other furniture than chests, tables,chairs, and bedsteads. In New England, as in the Old Country, the chest was the foremost article of furniture, until at least the middleof the seventeenth century ; whenchests with drawers are first men-tioned in… … 266 DECORATIVE FURNITURE other lands, do not appear to have been partial to chests in NewAmsterdam. Though some few old oak chests without drawers are to befound in New England—such as Elder Brewsters chest—probablynine-tenths were plain and of pine wood. The first settlers, bothDutch and English,…
Furniture · Decoration and ornament
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