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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 169

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 169 — upboards. In corner cup-boards the doors were sometimes circular fronted, sothat the whole piece of furniture filled a quarter circle(Plate IX, p. 112). Tops of cupboards of all varietieswere both straight and shaped (see Fig. 15). Plate IX,p. 112, shows a good example of what was known… … Fig. 15. Typical Forms of Interrupted Hoods or Broken Curved Pediments. straight pediments also occur (Fig. 15). A divisionis ordinarily made between the upper and lower sec-tions, the lower having a door or doors with a drawerabove and the upper having only a door or doors oftaller dimension. The…

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