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Title: The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Eberlein, Harold Donaldson McClure, Abbot, 1879-
Subjects: Furniture
Publisher: Philadelphia, London, J.B. Lippincott Company
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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Fio. 1. Two Early American Chairs Formerly the Property of James Pierpont, President of Yale College. Both Show Dutch Influence.By Courtesy of Mrs. William Channing Russell, Philadelphia. When we come to the William and Mary and QueenAnne furniture the workmanship is conspicuously bet-ter. Indeed, the New England joiners, cabinet-makersand chair-builders had become so proficient in their craftthat the product of their shops rivalled the output ofBritish makers in staunchness and accuracy of contour. In nearly all of this furniture of early New Englandmake there is an exquisite simplicity combined with fas-cinating grace of line giving it a permanent artistic
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BLOCK FRONT MAHOGANY SECRETARY OR BUREAU BOOKCASE, AMERICAN, LATE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY By Courtesy of Richard A. Canfield, Esq., New York City PLATE XLIII OTHER AMERICAN FURNITURE 305 value. The cabriole leg and cow, club, or hoof foot,characteristic of the Queen Anne period, were muchfavoured by New England cabinet-makers and theircustomers and continued to be made long after othermobiliary fashions had become well recognised. In-deed, it is no uncommon thing to find tables, lowboys,and highboys (Key XVIII, 8) with delicately propor-tioned cabriole legs of distinctly Queen Anne linesmade well on towards the latter part of the eighteenthcentury. This persistence of furniture types is very notice-able in other particulars as well and we discover it notonly in New England but in other parts of the Colonieslikewise. It is comparable to the conservatism thathas perpetuated in America many old forms of speech,so that to-day really better and purer English is spokenin Philadelphia, Boston, Vi

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