Old English furniture and its surroundings, from the restoration to the regency (1920)
Percival, MacIver · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 231
il and silk curtain. These, when veneeredwith fine figured mahogany and inlaid with ovals or otherfigures, are beautiful pieces of furniture. They are admirablefor the display of silver plate, which shows to a great advant-age against the silk curtain, preferably of plain leaf green orrosy red… … Ad&.r!V 38. Commode, Design by Adam. bureau book-casesand wardrobe-secre-taries almost invari-ably have a top partwhich is too heavy forthe bottom. The wide break-front book-cases are generallyfitted with glassdoors ; old patterns with straight-sided panes such as the* thirteen and eleven were…
Furniture · Interior decoration
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