Furniture of the Pilgrim century, 1620-1720, including colonial utensils and hardware (1910)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 · Framingham, Boston : Old America Company · leaf 345
this book previously shown in books of furniture, but it isbelieved that this is the first photograph which renders the quaint inscrip-tions legible. They are in the form of poems such as were worked uponsamplers. The colorings of the foliage are very rich, especially the greens and thereds, and… … A BED with a canopy on which appears a repeated figure of peacocks inblue with fohage. The phrase, tent bed often used is perhaps derived fromthe rounded tops of some canopy beds. Others derive their name from thefact that the posts are made in two sections. The upper sections were calledpoles,…
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