Furniture of the Pilgrim century, 1620-1720, including colonial utensils and hardware (1910)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 · Framingham, Boston : Old America Company · leaf 401
nce to showit both extended, and with the leaf dropped. It suggests a small three-cornered table in the Metropolitan Museum in its treatment of the cornerposts which are, of course, triangular where they ordinarily would be square.Corner tables seem always to possess a charm probably arising, if we… … WHILE the stretchers of this piece are plain, we count it scarcely lessimportant for that reason. The turned stretchers are more sought for andof course more decorative, but it is probable that the very earliest tablesdid not have them. The tavern table is a case in point. In gate-leg tablesthe…
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