Old English furniture and its surroundings, from the restoration to the regency (1920)
Percival, MacIver · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 163
aborate pieces, with claw and ball feet and carving onthe knee. Between 1730 and 1740 the square leg, eitherplain or reeded, was very popular, and later, on some very finepieces, it was pierced and carved in the Chinese manner.Fretted brackets just at the junction of the legs with the seator the… … 29. Mahogany Chair, COVERED WITH GrEEN Moreen, piped withsame material, c. i725. mode, were again very generally used withthe square leg, but were usually plain andrectangular in section. Chests and suchthings were sometimes mounted on dwarfcabriole legs, but if they were only raiseda few inches…
Furniture · Interior decoration
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