Furniture of the Pilgrim century, 1620-1720, including colonial utensils and hardware (1910)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 · Framingham, Boston : Old America Company · leaf 298
nomenclature infurniture. Terms are now common enough, descriptive of antique pieceswhich were unknown a few years back. The jargon of the collector maysooner than anything else disclose the fullness and accuracy of his informa-tion. Later in this work we supply a list of names applicable to the… … THE left hand baby chair, with wings, is covered with decorative paint-ing. It is an effort, rather unsuccessful and amateurish, to imitate themore pretentious decorated pieces. The middle chair is not the usual elbow chair. The finials mark it assomewhat late. The stool may be of almost any period…
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