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 87
mple is partlywrought and partly cast. Foot-scrapers, fastened into blocks of stone ormarble beside doorsteps, also lent themselves to inter-esting manipulation. They were both simple and 60 EARLY AMERICAN ARTS AND CRAFTS ornate, but always well proportioned. The illustrationsshow how elaborately… … Fig. 2. Weather-vane, wrougnt iron, from the mill built by William Penn, SamuelCarpenter, and Caleb Pusey, at Che^5ter, Pennsylvania, 1699. Collection of Pennsylvania Historical Society. tendrils, or other ornaments that graced the stock, itwas not unusual for the peak to bear an…
Decorative arts -- United States History · Collectors and collecting
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