Morse, Frances Clary · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 177
f 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 types of which are found,sometimes with the slats not turned, but straight and Chairs… … Illus. 109 and Illus. 110.— Banister-back Chairs. 1710-1720. the deacon to sit upon, as was the custom. Thedeacon must have longed for the two hours sermonto end, if he had to sit upon this chair with its hio;h,narrow seat. There are several kinds of wood in 154 Furniture of the Olden Time these…
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