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 447
he chairs shown in Fig. 2 well exemplify thestyle. 324 PRACTICAL BOOK OF PERIOD FURNITURE One more sort of painted furniture, and in somerespects the most interesting because the most spon-taneous, remains to be considered. It is the paintedfurniture of the Pennsylvania Dutch, and the decora-tive… … Fig. 1. Birch Mirror Frame with Biedermeyer Design in Black. Pennsylvania during the latter part of the seventeenthand the first half of the eighteenth centuries. It is, ofcourse, peasant furniture and not to be ranked withthe sorts considered earlier in the chapter but it ishighly decorative in…
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