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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 406

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 406 — sides. The ends were usuallysupported by some variation of the lyre motif, risingfrom outward-spread, curule legs with brass-mounted AMERICAN EMPIRE 295 feet (Key XVII, 4). Phyfe, more than any of the otherAmerican makers, retained the custom of using brassmounts on his furniture. Work-stands were… … Fig. 6. Pedestal Drop-Leaf Table.By Courtesy of Wilson Mitchell, Esq., Philadelphia. Pier tables of elaborate pattern supported on pillarsor dolphin-shaped supports (cf. Supports in PlateXXXIX, p. 286) were considered extremely elegant andwere often adorned in the back part with mirrors. CHESTS OF…

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