Morse, Frances Clary · New York, the MacMillan Co. · leaf 86
Illus. 41. —Night Table. 1785. Washstand,1815-830. piano which can beused as a toilet-table,with a looking-glassand trays for variousarticles, but it musthave been, even whennew, regarded lessfrom the utilitarianside, and rather as anovel and ornamentalpiece of furniture. CHAPTER III BEDSTEADS … 0 ^NE of the mostvaluable pieces offurniture in thehousehold of theseventeenth and eighteenthcenturies was the bedsteadwith its belongings. Bed-steads and beds occupy alarge space in inventories,and their valuation wasoften far more than thatof any other article in theinventory,sometimes morethan…
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