Furniture of the Pilgrim century, 1620-1720, including colonial utensils and hardware (1910)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 · Framingham, Boston : Old America Company · leaf 21
orms,appears in our earliest literature. The carving on ecclesiastical chests wasinspired by reverence as well as by the innate necessity of man to expresshimself. Chests, as we first know them, originated in Italy, the cradle of arts.The English chests, our direct source of design, were brought to… … A CARVED Three-panel Oak Chest, owned by the author. It is pecuHar in having an oak paneled top, known in only two or threeother American chests. This feature would indicate an early date since theearliest chests were closer imitations of the English than the later chests. A good feature is the…
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