Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic (1922)
Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Committee on Education · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 281
of which identical examples maybe found in Germantown and in the Barton Myers house in Norfolk. Such orna-ments were occasionally mentioned in inventories or offered for sale. Thus amongthe contents of the great house of Elias Hasket Derby, who ciied in 1799, is listed:One box Composition Ornaments…