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 134
r elaborateornamentation. Marqueterie, oystering and lacquerwere freely used in their decorations, particularly thetall-case clocks, many of which had a circular hole inthe middle of the door filled with either clear glass ora bulls-eye. The tops frequently had the hooded orarched form. The dials… … WILLIAM AND MARY 91 walnut. It was used as a groundwork and also as aveneer on a ground of oak or even a soft wood.Although small tables and chairs were occasionallymade of walnut before this time, oak was used almostaltogether for cabinet work down to the very end of theJacobean period, except in…
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