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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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essityfor polite and elegant households. The console cabinetwas placed between windows or doors and was regardedas essential to any symmetrical scheme of furnishing.Above it was usually hung a handsome mirror and per-haps a pair of ornate sconces to match it. The lines ofthe console cabinetwere conspicuously vertical and hori-zontal, while the front, usually with doors rather thandrawers, was often semi-circular or semi-oval (Key X,5) in form. Sometimes, where the cabinet was designedto fill a long space, the body would be rectangular andthe middle section would have a semi-circular or semi-oval bay. Short tapering legs, square or round, sup-ported these cabinets, which were nearly always highlydecorated. Other cabinets, not of the console type(Plate XXII, p. 190), were supported on tall legs. SECRETARIES, BOOKCASES AND CHINA CUPBOARDS These articles of furniture (Fig. 2) so exactly coin-cide with the corresponding pieces made by Hepple-white, who executed many of the Adam commissions
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ADAM GILT MIRROR AND CONSOLE TABLE By Courtesy of Messrs. Hale and Kilburn, Philadelphia PLATE XXIII THE BROTHERS ADAM 195 anyhow—the Adams, be it remembered, never made astick of furniture themselves—that, for the sake of ?— —su ?— —su 1 ?— —S* r—~^ oS — 1 ST Fig. 2. Bookcase of Characteristic Adam Contour. convenience and brevity, they will be treated in theHepplewhite Chapter. SIDEBOARD TABLES AND PEDESTALS The development of the sideboard, furthered byShearer and Hepplewhite and reaching perfection inthe designs of Sheraton, was greatly advanced by theAdelphi. They did not make the sideboard as we nowknow it but enhanced the importance and grace of thesideboard table, which they flanked at either end bysquare pedestals of corresponding design, surmountedby graceful urn-shaped knife boxes (Plates XXI, p. 186and XXIV, p. 198; Key X, 4). They also frequently 196 PRACTICAL BOOK OF PERIOD FURNITURE put a wine cooler, or cellarette to mat

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