Furniture of the Pilgrim century, 1620-1720, including colonial utensils and hardware (1910)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 · Framingham, Boston : Old America Company · leaf 412
ce the sense of humanness connected with oldfurniture. The wear of the stretchers is especially noticeable. The tableis small and has an oval top. The object of slanting the legs of these tablesis obvious. Greater stability was secured, and the slant afforded room forthe bracket to swing back… … A BUTTERFLY Table, having a pine top with tongued and groovedjoint, and a flush drawer. The brackets in this piece are somewhat clumsyand perhaps not original. In this connection an unsuspected refinementin furniture is revealed. Any failure of relation between one part andanother instantly asserts…
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