Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic (1922)
Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955, New York. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Committee on Education · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 149
etime after 1745, at earliest. The most elaborate of all the chimneypieces carved in the colonies (figure 94),that of the Council Chamber of the Governor Wentworth house at Little Harbor,near Portsmouth, with its termini supporting the mantel, is derived from plate 64in William Kents Designs of… … Copyright, 10IQ, by Pc Maurice Kra/cow Figure 92. Console fromchimneypiece of parlor man-tel in the Brice house, An-napolis THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY are known to have been in the colonies. There is a somewhat similar design inSwans book, plate £4, but this has no overmantel and is otherwise not so…
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