Morse, Frances Clary · New York, the MacMillan Co. · leaf 251
Illus. 188. —• Hundred-legged Table, 1680-1700, was made about 1740, and belongs to Francis H.Bigelow, Esq, The same Dutch leg is seen in Illustration 190upon a dainty httle mahogany card-table, with slidesat each end to hold the candlesticks. This tablebelongs to Miss Tilton of Newburyport. Tabl… … Illustration 191 shows a mahogany table with claw-and-ball feet owned by the writer. The top meas-ures four feet fourinches across, and its ^-date is about 1750.The double coasterupon wheels, filledwith violets, was madeto hold decanters ofwine, and one canimagine these wheelsrattling down the…
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