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 318
ed, and wholly oval or round, in thelatter case the supporting uprights adjoining the lowerpart being prolongations of the back legs in the manner LOUIS SEIZE 229 of Hepplewhite back supports. Caned backs followedthe same general line as upholstered backs. Woodenor carved backs were often hoop- or… … Fig. 2. Louis Seize Arm-chair.By Courtesy of Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. In arm-chairs the arms either sprung horizontallyat an angle from the uprights of the back or else fellaway from them in a single curve (Fig. 2, and PlateXXIX, p. 226). In either case the arms were not shapedbut…
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