Morse, Frances Clary · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 216
pan-ning, with gilt flowers upon a black ground. Thesechairs, which were called Fancy chairs, were verypopular during the first part of the nineteenth cen-tury, together with settees decorated in the samefashion. Illustration 159 shows two mahogany chairsowned by Waldo Lincoln, Esq., of the styles… … r HE first form ofthe long seat, after-ward developedinto the sofa, wasthe settle, which is foundin the earliest hiventories inthis country, and still earlierin England. The settleoftenest seen in Americais of simple construction,usually of pine, and painted;probably the work of acountry…
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