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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 165

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 165 — ners to match,or with pediments of other character in use at the pe-riod (Fig. 15; Plate IX, p. 112). The edges of drawers,instead of being flush with the stiles and rails, fre-quently overlapped slightly and no half round mould-ings or beads were used in such cases. The lower partof these chests… … Fig. 12. Queen Anne Low Chest with Drawers.By Courtesy of Mr. A. F. C. Bateman, Philadelphia. any great extent after about 1740. Some of these lowchests in the Colonies had movable bases and weremeant to be carried on the backs of sumpter mules andhorses. Such chests were also made to be set one…

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