The practical book of early American arts and crafts (1916)
Eberlein, Harold Donaldson, McClure, Abbot, 1879-, Bainbridge, Mabel Foster, 1885- · Philadelphia, London : J.B. Lippincott Company · leaf 401
t is wrought onAmerican oak. It is but natural that semi-medireval(Fig. 4) and Kenaissance traditions of wood carvingshould be thus faithfully perpetuated on American soil,for the craftsmen who did the work were English to thecore, no matter on which side of the Atlantic they hap-pen to have been… … FiQ. 4. Motif from Hftdley Cheat ehowing flat carving with tendrila wrought inscratch carving. New England, late Seventesnth Century. BoUes Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Citj-. realisation that, after all, we, through our AmericanEnglish forefathers—Washington and Adams,…
Decorative arts -- United States History · Collectors and collecting
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