The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour, & history (1911)
Foley, Edwin · New York, G.P. Putnam's sons · leaf 96
conoclast of the Reformation, or hisCromwellian prototype. Much ink has been spent over the vexedquestions of the origins, functions, and re-lations of the various forms of cupboard.[II The writer longs to join in the fray, and indeed has composed, and destroyed, a most paet of oak door, probably… … 56 DECORATIVE FURNITURE Upon the domestication of decorative furniture, ecclesiastical typessuch as the credence and the almery were adopted generally in thehome; and when the Renaissance arrived its ornament was crudelygrafted upon the Gothic construction of these pieces. By a curioustwist of fate…
Furniture · Decoration and ornament
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