Morse, Frances Clary · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 80
Illus. 36. — Bureau, about 1815 and inconvenient washstands. A bason frameappears in an inventory of 1654. Chippendaledesigned bason stands which were simply a tri-pod stand, into the top of which the basin fitted.The drawings of Shearer, Hepplewhite, and Shera- 56 Furniture of the Olden Time ton… … the enclosed cupboard. It was made from a Hep-plewhite design and is owned by Francis H. Bigelow,Esq., of Cambridge. The corner washstand in Illustration 39 is ownedby the writer. It is of mahogany, and the drawers Bureaus and Washstands 57 are finely inlaid, probably after a Sheraton design.The…
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