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 147
d materially because of the prevalenceof the new wood, except that they became lighter andmore graceful, and we also find far greater elaborationof carving, to which mahogany lent itself particularly 102 PRACTICAL BOOK OF PERIOD FURNITURE well. The time, barren of any striking originality, sawthe… … Fia. 3. Highly Carved and Gilt Leg. way of invention was to devise or borrow new detailsof decoration to meet the constant demand of theirpatrons for a measure of novelty. ARTICLES A catalogue of the articles of usual occurrence em-braces chairs, stools, settles, settees or sofas,…
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