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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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r of the intricate mouldings would be lost.Chintzes were also much used for bed-hangings. The less important members of the household sleptin truckle beds, cupboard beds, turn-up beds orpress beds (which shut up against the wall) or onpallets, all of which seem to have completely dis-appeared. In America the bedposts never reached such an ex-aggerated height as they did in England. TABLES The typical dining table of the period was the gatewhich, when the leaves were extended and supportedby the gates being pulled out, were generally round oroval in shape and could comfortably accommodateeight, or ten persons (Key II, 7). The legs of thesetables were turned. Of common occurrence were small rectangular tableswith cup or spindle turned legs, saltire stretchers andbun feet (Key III, 1, and section on Lowboys). While WILLIAM AND MARY 81 the gate tables were plain, these small tables were oftenhighly decorated with marqueterie or lacquer. It was not an age of large tables such as those that
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II O P Oy R. 5 Fig. 4. Details of Feet, Legs and Mouldings Characteristic of William and Mary Period. had characterised earlier Stuart days and instead ofthe long refectory boards we find a host of small tablesfor cards, writing, dressing, tea, gaming and variousother uses. 82 PRACTICAL BOOK OF PERIOD FURNITURE Besides gate tables, there were small folding tablesmade upon the same principle and having turned legsand butterfly tables with outward splayed turnedlegs and movable wing brackets to uphold little leaveson each side. At this same time were found, chiefly in America(see Chapter on Other American Furniture), smallrectangular tables with four straight turned legs andstraight turned stretchers. They were simpler thanthe tables with cup-turned legs and bun feet but full ofgrace. Joint stools of similar pattern frequently ac-companied them (Key XVIII. 5). CHESTS OF DRAWEES AXD CHESTS Chests oi drawers were of two kinds, having thecarcase in one or two sections respectively. Those o

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