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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 310

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 310 — any otherinstance. As previously noted, Hepplewhites chairs inmost cases had no supporting junction of splat and seatrail, but some Adam backs arose merely from the seatrail without support of uprights. Carcase work wasmainly rectilinear, with the exception of the shapedfronts of console cabinets,… … A B C Fig. 4. Hepplewhite Mounts. plates were small and usually consisted of a diamond-shaped piece of ivory set flush with the woodwork.Otherwise, a flush band of brass was used around thekeyhole. Brass knobs, chased or engraved, were alsoused, as well as bail handles. The central portion ofback…

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