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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 166

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 166 — NNE AND EARLY GEORGIAN 117 HIGHBOYS AND LOWBOYS The age of Queen Anne is essentially an age ofgraceful highboys and lowboys (Key IV, 1 and 3).Fortunately they were made in great number and agoodly percentage has come down uninjured to our ownday. They have four well proportioned cabriole legsand… … Fig. 13. Lowboy with Shaped Apron and Pointed Club Feet.By Courtesy of Col. William J. Youngs, Esq., Garden City, L. I. others. The upper part is detachable from the lower,so that the lower half may really be used as a lowboy(Fig. 13). Both sections have drawers and usually areornamented with a…

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