Furniture of the Pilgrim century, 1620-1720, including colonial utensils and hardware (1910)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 · Framingham, Boston : Old America Company · leaf 364
or of the drawing table, whose leaves pushed under themain board, at the ends, was a table with hinged leaves. That shown above,at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, belongs to Mr. George DudleySeymour, and is the only one now known in this style. It is most valuable asa connecting link between the… … AFTER the trestles naturally come the standing tables. Whether anyof those having an extreme length were ever used in dwellings may be ques-tioned. Most of the great standing tables now known of American originwere like the example above, communion tables. The frame is too highfor domestic use, it…
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