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 404
ning, the gilding at the ends and at scrollpieces being worked into the anthemion motif (KeyXVI, 4). AMERICAN EMPIRE 293 BEDSTEADS In America during the Empire period four-postedbedsteads continued to be used and pillars were ofbulky dimensions and heavily carved. The bases of theposts were… … Fig. 4. Gondola or Sleigh Bed. alone without any spiral treatment was used (Key XVI,5; Fig. 1, K). Then again, the criss-cross diaperingsof the pineapple (Fig. 1, F) played an important partin the decorative motif for these impressive bedsteads.Such bedsteads rarely had foot-boards, but had…
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