Morse, Frances Clary · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 163
Illustration 93 shows a bureau and desk, belong-ing to Mrs. J. H. Henry of Winchendon. Thelid of the desk turns back like the lid of a piano.The carved pillars at the side are like the ones uponthe bureau in Illustration 37, and upon other piecesof furniture of the same date, about 1820. CHAPTER VI … C nialfew CHAIRS HAIRS are seldom men-tioned in theearliest colo-inventories, andwere in use ineither England orAmerica at that time.Forms and stools wereused tor seats in thesixteenth and earlyseventeenth centuries,and inventories of thatperiod, even those ofwealthy men, do notoften contain…
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