Furniture of the Pilgrim century, 1620-1720, including colonial utensils and hardware (1910)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 · Framingham, Boston : Old America Company · leaf 58
4inches from front to back. It has not hitherto been mentioned, but the reader will have seen thatoak chests were made of riven lumber, and therefore they almost uniformlyshow the quarter grain. This is sufficient ornament in itself. In fact, wecount it a defect that carving should ever appear on… … AN Oak Chest, with Applied Ornaments. Owner: In the former WallaceNutting Collection; then owned by Mr. Chauncey C. Nash; then by an ownerunknown to the writer. It is marked by very handsome quartering, appar-ently left free of ornament on the top rail to show its beauty. Date: 1670-90. At the top…
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