Furniture of the Pilgrim century, 1620-1720, including colonial utensils and hardware (1910)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 · Framingham, Boston : Old America Company · leaf 279
top and bottomrails of the back areboth scrolled. The armsare done with a hollowedsurface. However, thespecial peculiarity of thepiece is the apparent mixture of styles. We would like to see the secondary spindle under thearm lower down and in a horizontal position. Finding it, however, whereit is,… … 261 A REVERSEDBanister-Back Chair.Owner: Mrs. John Mar-shall Holcombe. Theintermediate spindle un-der the arm is very rarein a chair of this style. The fashion of rever-sing the banisters, show-ing the rounded side infront, we used to regardas a mark of lack ofknowledge in the cabinetmaker. We are…
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