Morse, Frances Clary · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 73
PhinneyBaxter, Esq., of Portland, Maine. Such dressing-glasses were intendedto stand upon a dress-ing-table or bureau. A bureau and dress-ing-glass owned bythe writer are shownin Illustration 32.The bureau is ofcherry, with thedrawer fronts ve-neered in mahoganyedged with satinwood.A row of fine… … Illus. 31. — Drecsing-glass, about 1760. a bureau. The dressing-glass is of mahogany andsatinwood with fine inlaying around the frame ofthe glass and the edge of the stand. The baseof the bureau is of a plain type, while that of thedressing-glass has the same graceful curves thatappear in…
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