Furniture of the Pilgrim century, 1620-1720, including colonial utensils and hardware (1910)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 · Framingham, Boston : Old America Company · leaf 432
ow hason the drawer a crudescratch inlay, a scroll filled in with a white wood. Date: 1700-30. The medial stretcher on these and other tables was an obvious deviceto give room for the feet under the table. Incidentally the invention addedto the attractiveness of the table. The strength was hardly… … The love of ornament is much more strongly marked on the continentthan in England. The Welsh seem to love ornament more than the English.But the furniture ornament of America, when not English, was Dutch.The evidences of Dutch feeling in NewYork, Pennsylvania and New Jersey,in the carving of…
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