Furniture of the Pilgrim century, 1620-1720, including colonial utensils and hardware (1910)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 · Framingham, Boston : Old America Company · leaf 515
frame as other glasses provided with brackets. Date: 1710-30. The frame has been gilded and blacked. It is left as found, in therough, some parts of the gilding having scaled off. The possession of a large glass, in the period we are treating, was counteda luxury. Little glasses crudely framed in… … side is 27^8 by 31,^inches. The wood iswalnut veneer. The glassis i8>^ by 22 inches. Thebevel is discernible. Whether the beve!originated in a desire toreflect light as fromanother face of glass afterthe manner in whichprecious stones are cut,we do not know. Thebevel adds to the beautyof the…
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