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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 163

An illustration from The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods, 1914, leaf 163 — e same way. Card tables with turn-over hingedtops made their appearance. The corners were 114 PRACTICAL BOOK OF PERIOD FURNITURE 11dished to hold candlesticks and there were fourshallow oval wells for coins or chips. In some cases thecorners were blocked or rounded where the legs joinedthe… … Fig. 10. Walnut Cabriole-legged, Drop-leaf Table, commonly used as a Dining Table.In the Possession of H. D. Eberlein, Esq. Many of the sideboard and console tables withmarble tops were very sumptuous affairs with ornatelycarved and gilt bases in which sphinxes, eagles, grif-fins, human figures,…

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