Old English furniture and its surroundings, from the restoration to the regency (1920)
Percival, MacIver · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 188
s were placed oppositethe spout, not at the side. Tea-pots are generally eitherglobular or bombe at the bottom,the shapes being reminiscent ofpotters work ; the spouts andhandles are often most unhappilyset on. Some of them are, how-ever, particularly pretty, moreespecially those mounted on… … 3I Silver Tea-pot, Black WoodenHandle, 1746. OLD ENGLISH FURNITURE most attractive are those mounted on three little clawsor hoofs. On the tea and dinner tables of the middle of the centurythe silver basket for cakes and fruit made a frequent appear-ance. It probably took the place of the real…
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