Old English furniture and its surroundings, from the restoration to the regency (1920)
Percival, MacIver · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 125
mall boxes and trays, and lined with a delightful shadeof blotting paper, pink silk or embossed paper. Tea-caddieswere not very often made in wood, though a few in the late herring-boned walnut are to be found. Tea was moreusually kept in Oriental or Delft ware bottles, with straightrectangular… … 26. Hanging Chandelier of Polished Brass. LIGHTING was still entirely by means of candles, eitherset in sconces on the walls or in hanging chandeliers. These were made in sil-ver, brass, pewterand glass. Thesconces in use bythe great familieswere often em-bossed with theirarms, and some-times the…
Furniture · Interior decoration
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