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 397
it is wrought onAmerican oak. It is but natural that semi-mediaeval(Fig. 4) and Renaissance 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… … Fig. 4. Motif from Hadley Chest showing flat carving with tendrils wrought inscratch carving. New England, late Seventesnth Century. Bolles Collection, Metropolitan Mueeum of Art, New York City. realisation that, after all, we, through our AmericanEnglish forefathers—Washington and Adams, thoughthe…
Decorative arts -- United States History · Collectors and collecting
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