Morse, Frances Clary · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 360
740 to 1750. Alooking-glass with aframe of olive-woodinlaid, made about1700, is in the Whip-ple house at Ipswich. The fashion for ja-panning, which roseat the close of theseventeenth century,was carried out inlooking-glass frames.A London paper of1689 advertised Several sorts ofScrewtores,… … lUus. 278.— Looking-glass, 1690. ^2^ Furniture of the Olden Time square at the bottom and shaped in curious curvesat the top. A large star is cut in the centre of theglass, which must have interfered seriously with thereflections of the belles and beaux who wished to seetheir patches and their…
Furniture
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