Morse, Frances Clary · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 46
nd F givethe succeedingstyles of brasshandles, the de-sign growing moreelaborate and in-creasing in size.These are foundupon desks, chestsof drawers, com-modes, and otherpieces of furni-ture of the Chip-pendale period. The earliestform of high chest Illus. 11. —Six-legged High Chest of Drawers, of… … I Chests, Chests of Drawers, Dressing-tables 23 years later in date. Six-legged chests were madeduring the last quarter of the seventeenth century,and were usually of walnut, either solid or veneeredupon pine or whitewood ; other woods were rarelyemployed. The earliest six-legged chests were…
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