Morse, Frances Clary · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 185
other, as the rockers, short in frontand long behind, bear evidence. These chairs areowned by the writer. The Dutch chair with bandy or cabriole legs anda splat in the back made its appearance with the Chairs i6i early years of the eighteenth century, and was theforerunner of the Chippendale chair.… … Illus. 1 19. —Windsor Rocking-chairs, 1820-1830. parrot-back, from the shape of the opening eachside of the solid splat. The stretchers or under-braces of earlier chairs are retained in the firstDutch chairs, one of which is shown in Illustra-tion I20, owned by Mrs. Charles H. Prentice,…
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