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Furniture of the olden time (1902)

Morse, Frances Clary · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 176

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Chippendale and others.This chair and the one in Illustration 107 belong tothe writer. A form of chair which retained many of thecharacteristics of the cane chair was the banister-back chair, which appears often in inventories ofthe first half of the eighteenth century. 152 Furniture of the Olden… … lllus. 107. — Cane Chair,1690-1700. lllus. 1( -Queen Anne Chair,1710-1720. the legs of one chair end in a clumsy Spanish foot.The banisters which form the back are turned onone side and flat on the other. These chairs havethe flat side in front, but either side was used inbanister chairs, plainer…

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