Furniture of the Pilgrim century, 1620-1720, including colonial utensils and hardware (1910)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 · Framingham, Boston : Old America Company · leaf 315
in manybeds of the period. Sail cloth was laced across. This made necessarythe covering of the couch with some sort of cushion. The more finishedcane couch did not strictly require a cover. But to use a cane couch with-out a cover would speedily destroy the cane. And when the cane wascovered there… … A DAY-BED belonging to the Metropolitan Museum. The arched andscrolled stretchers give us a date practically the same as that of the pieceswhose legs are carved in the Flemish style, namely 1670-1700. The varietieswhich we find, some with turned legs and some with carved legs, are merelya matter of…
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