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 189
ort were characteristics more in evidence. 136 PRACTICAL BOOK OF PERIOD FURNITURE Legs at first were often straight, carved and mouldedand joined by straight X or saltire stretchers, likewiseelaborately carved and moulded (Plate XII, p. 136).About the end of the seventeenth century a… … Fig. 1. Louis Quinze Arm Chair.By Courtesy of Mr. R. W. Lehne, Philadelphia. biche (Plate XII, p. 136). Some of the chairs were madewithout stretchers while many, on the other hand, hadflat serpentine stretchers of the same general type wehave seen in William and Mary chairs and settees. Theknee of…
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