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The furniture collectors' glossary (1913)

Lockwood, Luke Vincent, 1872-1951, Walpole society · New York Printed for the Society · leaf 24

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Capital. — Continued. Cabinet. — A small piece of fur- Corinthian and Ionic capi- niture containing drawers or tals. compartments — Etagere. … Corinthian. — The capital of the Canal Moulding. — See Mould- Corinthian order, one of ing. the three orders used by the Canephores. — Figures of wom- en bearing baskets on their heads; used in place of col- umns. Cant. — A surface sloping from, or making an obtuse angle with, a surface adjacent to…

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