Morse, Frances Clary · New York, the MacMillan Co. · leaf 45
ashions were concerned.Chests of drawers appear in inventories about Chests, Chests of Drawers, Dressing-tables 19 1645. They were usually made of oak and weresimilar in design to the chests of that period. The oak chest of drawers in Illustration 9 isowned by K, R. Lemon, Esq., of the Wayside… … J Ulus. 7 and Illus. 8. — Panelled Chests upon Frames,1670-1700. unusual design, the drop being of bell-flower shape.This chest of drawers was found in Maiden. From the time that high chests of drawers wereintroduced, during the last part of the seventeenthcentury, the use of oak in furniture…
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