Furniture of the Pilgrim century, 1620-1720, including colonial utensils and hardware (1910)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 · Framingham, Boston : Old America Company · leaf 445
m Boston. Eastern New England was veryrich in such pieces, mostly lost. One should measure lowboys and highboys carefully a few times, andthereafter will never be deceived. On reference to pages 72-86 it will benoted the highboys are, on the frame, higher, wider, and deeper from frontto back. The… … A WALNUT Cross-Stretcher Lowboy. Owner: Mr. W. of Boston.Date: 1690-1700. The huge middle drop is a striking feature. It is perhapsnot necessary to point out that these drops represent the place where legswould otherwise have been, and show the process of development. In thiscase the early type…
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