Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 274
e of honoiir. Another and later develop-ment of the chest was to raiseit on legs, and to add a backarrangement to it, with shelvesfor the display of householdplate, to which was given thename oidressotr, or dresser, thelatter in time developing intothe modern sideboard. Chests were also… … Fig. 229.—The Coronation Chair,Westminster Abbey. (P.) 2^6 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. the semicircular shape of the copes when laid out flat inthese chests. Examples of these chests are still to be seenin some of the large cathedrals.
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