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 140
e the joinery. Chair and table legs werefirmly braced with stretchers. In some of the chairsthe cresting was tenoned between the uprights whichterminated in finials. Others, not as strong construc-tionally, had the cresting dowelled on to the tops of theuprights. In some chairs front legs are… … Fig. 8. Characteristic Metal Mounts of William and Mary Period. the forms chiefly met with. Escutcheons and key-plateswith cherubs heads and also other elaborations are 96 PRACTICAL BOOK OF PERIOD FURNITURE found on some of the cabinet work. On lacquer cab-inets it was usual to have ornate chased…
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