Furniture of the Pilgrim century, 1620-1720, including colonial utensils and hardware (1910)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 · Framingham, Boston : Old America Company · leaf 374
cross stretchers are slightly scrolled as are also the straddling legs; the ma-terial is pine. One cannot resist the conclusion that a piece of this sort was a gift con-structed by a young husband for his bride. The honest and not unsuccess-ful attempts at decoration are indicative of affection in… … A KITCHEN Table in Pine. The great thickness of the trestles and thestill greater spread of their bases or shoes are points of attraction. Themethod of tenon and mortise is certainly crude enough, and possibly affordedthe suggestion of the mission furniture. In reality it is only a…
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