Furniture of the Pilgrim century, 1620-1720, including colonial utensils and hardware (1910)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 · Framingham, Boston : Old America Company · leaf 387
ed. The turnings in this case are bold, but they are so, always, at the expenseof strength. If the leg is very large there is leeway for bold turnings. Gate-leg tables usually have one drawer reaching about two-thirds thelength of the table. If the table is very large there are two drawers. Inthe… … A SOMEWHAT stockily turned gate-leg table, in the possession of thewriter. It has lost its feet but is otherwise original. The turning is usually, as here, a doubled vase and ring. The leg, cutin two in the middle, would give two identical turnings. But on pages 364,371, 376 and 382 we have single…
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