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 91
e part in highest relief does not pro-ject above the surfaces of the object. (2) Flat 56 PRACTICAL BOOK OF PERIOD FURNITURE carving was also popular. In this sort flat surfacespredominated and were thrown into relief by thegroundwork being sunk or sharply gouged out(Fig. 11). (3) Scratch carving… … Fig. 11. Jacobean Oak Chest, c. 1640, in Collection of Pennsylvania Historical Soci-ety. Length, 52 inches; height, 22 inches; width, 23 inches. Shows gouged ornamentin bottom rail and stiles and incised carving elsewhere. All these methods were sometimes used in orna-menting the same piece of…
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