Old English furniture from the 16th to the 19th centuries. A guide for the collector (1909)
Wheeler, George Owen · London, L. U. Gill · leaf 360
Old English Furniture. 334 Louis Quinze or Chinese garnishment. The legs might be Perpendicular or Early English, with corresponding mouldings, whilst the superstructure would be governed by Celestial tradition. Rarely, but still now and then, there would be a low back rail of wood rising on the… … Fine Chippendale Side- or Carving-Table, showing gadroon edge and shell. Circa 1750. Author’s Collection. It is quite exceptional to find one of these 11 boards ” with a drawer or other fittings ; but now and then one comes across an example with a single drawer, more commonly a slab to pull out…
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