Old English furniture and its surroundings, from the restoration to the regency (1920)
Percival, MacIver · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 194
g-roomswere the recognised private sitting-rooms or boudoirs of theoccupant. Much beautiful work was lavished on the minor objectsfor domestic use, such as tea-caddies and other small cabinetwork. The boxes for tea are called by Chippendale * tea-chests, *and they generally enclose a metal… … EARLY GEORGIAN fitted into outer covers of sha-green or mahogany for Bohea,*Green, or Gunpowder ac-cording to the taste of the drinker. Cases for knives and prongs were sometimes of mahogany, butmore often they were covered with ,^^P^5i^^^^^^^2f>5=^^black or dark green shagreen, with ^^…
Furniture · Interior decoration
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