Old English furniture from the 16th to the 19th centuries. A guide for the collector (1909)
Wheeler, George Owen · London, L. U. Gill · leaf 182
156 Old English Furniture. work, it is best to select those which exhibit a blending of walnut and gold in unaggressive guise. One is often asked the meaning and derivation of the … Queen Anne Cabinet, and Spoon-backed Chair showing early cabriole legs. term “cabriole,’ ’ so generally employed to describe the bent styles of legs in fashion during Stuart and Georgian days, and a reference to Chambers dispels the doubt, for we read
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