Old English furniture and its surroundings, from the restoration to the regency (1920)
Percival, MacIver · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 97
s generally associated with cab-riole legs, if there is a stand.The decoration of these chests is very various. Exquisiteand many shaded marquetry, oystering and other strikingarrangements of finely grained woods were succeeded by aquieter taste, which was met by the arrangements of walnutof much… … herring-bone edging and cross-banding.Writing cabinets were made with fall fronts,and were either placed on stands or on setsof drawers. BUREAUX were received with muchenthusiasm when they became general some-where towards the end of Williams reign.They are usually of the later kind of…
Furniture · Interior decoration
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