Furniture of the Pilgrim century, 1620-1720, including colonial utensils and hardware (1910)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 · Framingham, Boston : Old America Company · leaf 410
the horizontal member.Doubtless the maker had in mind a middle stretcher table and sought toadapt the butterfly design to it. The result was certainly one of greatinterest and rarity. The eye loves to follow the uniform idea of turningthroughout such a piece, a style which indicates a sense of… … A VERY dainty small Butterfly Table, the property of the Estate ofMrs. Reinholt Faelten. It is only twenty-one and a quarter inches high.The turnings are highly meritorious. For some reason very small butterflytables are more sought for than the average size. We may presume it is thatdefect in…
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