The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods (1914)
Eberlein, Harold Donaldson, McClure, Abbot, 1879- · Philadelphia, London, J.B. Lippincott Company · leaf 122
ad two sections, theupper was slightly smaller than the lower and the divi-sion between the two was marked by a bold moulding.The upper section usually had a straight top, finishedwith a cornice and either a projecting ovolo (Fig. 4. A)or a flat frieze. Sometimes the top was single hoodedor the… … WILLIAM AND MARY 83 (Fig. 4, 0, and Key III; 1, 2 and 3). The drawers wereeither separated and edged by broad half-round mould-ings on the stiles and rails of the carcase or else thestile and rail surfaces were flat and the drawer frontsflush with them. All the usual decorative processeswere…
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