Morse, Frances Clary · New York, the MacMillan Co. · leaf 66
I!!us. 23.—Walnut Dressing-table, about 1770, fluted columns at the corners, and an urn with gar-lands above the flat top. It is probable, however,that high chests of drawers were not made in anynumber after 1790. CHAPTER II BUREAUS AND WASHSTANDS … T HE word bureauis now used to des-ignate low chests ofdrawers. Chippen-dale called such pieces com-mode tables or commodebureau tables. As desks withslanting lids for a long periodduring the eighteenth centurywere called bureaus or bureau desks, the proba-bility is that chests of drawerswhich…
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