Furniture of the Pilgrim century, 1620-1720, including colonial utensils and hardware (1910)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 · Framingham, Boston : Old America Company · leaf 443
n greattables, beds, court cupboards, and such pieces were crude, and not classi-cal. The Gothic tradition was reponsible for some forms. Later, the vaseshapes are more definitely established and modified to suit the ratherattenuated forms of table legs. Italy and the classic ideals were the… … A TRUMPET-TURNED Lowboy. Owner: Mr. G. Winthrop Brown.The name of trumpet given to the legs of this piece describes them with ac-curacy, especially as they are at the tops, without the cup, or inverted bowlturnings of the two lowboys that follow. The double arch mold dates thisspecimen a little…
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