Morse, Frances Clary · New York, the MacMillan Co. · leaf 129
f the sideboard in those daysof hard drinking. The top of this sideboard is sur-mounted by drawers, with a back above the drawers. Cupboards and Sideboards 103 The legs and the columns above them are fluted, andthe little columns at the corners of the upper drawersare carved, the inner ones with a… … Illus. 69.— Cellarets, 1790. Cellarets were made as a part of the dining-roomfurniture. They were lined with zinc, to hold theice in which the wine bottles were packed to cool,and at the lower edge of the body of the cellaret wasa faucet, or some arrangement by which the waterfrom the melted ice…
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