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 399
19 290 PRACTICAL BOOK OF PERIOD FURNITURE CHAIRS The American Empire chair is more graceful in thelong run than its English cousin, upon which fantasticnotions were often allowed free play. Seats were custo-marily square (Key XVI, 2 and 4; Fig. 2), legs wereboth straight (Key XVI, 4; and Fig. 2)… … Fig. 2. Roll-Arm, Rush-Bottom Chair.By Courtesy of Mrs. Richard C. Ridgway, Philadelphia. Formerly owned by Stephen Girard. backs was almost always curved to fit the figure of thesitter (Key XVI, 2 and 4). In the best type of Empirechairs the top rail is straight, rolled over (Key XVI,2 and 4) and…
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