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 344
s instead of beingvertical are horizontal (Key XIII, 4; Fig. 1, D, F andG; Fig. 2, A and B) and joined to the uprights insteadof running from top rail to rear seat rail. The turnedlegs of these late chairs are sometimes splayed outwardat the feet (Fig. 2, A and B). The backs at the end ofthe… … Fia. 3. Sheraton Sofa. They followed the same structural and decorative prin-ciples as the chairs. Caning was used both for backsand seats in many chairs and settees (Plate XXXIII,p. 244), and in some of the caned settees the backs wereagreeably diversified by an alternation of caned panels 248…
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