Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 511
d work such as wainscot-panels, doors,door- and window-trim and staircases and for carved 403 A HISTORY OF ORNAMENT details; the white pine particularly being easily workedand at once soft and durable. Panels two feet and eventhree feet wide could be cut from a single board. Inmany of the finer… … Fig. 309.—Upper Paiit of Doorway, Guxston Hall, Virginia. up to the ceiling on all four sides. Chimneypieces wereespecially elegant, with pilasters or colonnettes to sup-port the shelf, which was finely molded, and abovewhich the face of the chimney-breast was usuallyadorned with a large panel in a…
Decoration and ornament
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