Morse, Frances Clary · New York, the MacMillan Co. · leaf 137
d with theold J apan work like the rest ofthe secretary. A style of deskof a somewhatlater date is occa-sionally found,generally made ofmaple. Its formand proportionsare similar tothose of a low-boywith the Dutch bandy-leg and foot, and a desk top,the slanting lid of which lets down for use in… … Illus. 74.— Cabriole-legged Desk, 1720-1730. 112 Furniture of the Olden Time Pennsylvania Historical Society, labelled as havingbelonged to William Penn, but which is of a laterdate than that would imply, as it was made from1720 to 1730, while Penn left this country in 1701,never to return to it.…
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