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 74
ous principles of the maker. The seats were ofabout the same height as chair seats and the backs, asa rule, were slightly higher than chair backs, thoughoccasionally they were carried upward to an ungainlyextent. JACOBEAN PERIODSETTEES 41 The settee or sofa seems to have developed from thelove-seat… … Fig. 4. Jacobean Oak Settee; American, c. 1660. Cromwellian Type. Length, 6feet 1 inch; height of back, 2 feet 10 inches; height of seat, 1 foot 4 inches; breadth ofseat, 17 inches. By Courtesy of Col. William J. Youngs, Garden City, L. I. Legs and stretchers were like the legs and stretchers…
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