Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 351
k, the kettle-shaped, the serpen-tine, and the swell. They had various styled legs. old six-legged high chests? The plates of thebureau handles are oval-shaped, of plain brass.Does not this shape assume an added interestwhen you know that it was a favorite shape ofthe famous cabinet-maker… … A GIRL S SMALL BEDROOM. But they all had a fine feeling for proportion andfor proper ornamentation, and were the prede-cessors of the modern bureau. A legitimate ornamentation of bureaus are thehandles and escutcheons. An interest in suchdetails of your furniture gives you many a happyhour. It…
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