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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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EES AXD CHESTS Chests oi drawers were of two kinds, having thecarcase in one or two sections respectively. Those ofone section had three to five drawers. They were usu-ally four drawers in height, the upper space beingoccupied by two short drawers instead of one longdrawer. The tops were flat and upon them often stoodlace boxes, covered with lacquer or inlaid with inar-queterie to match the chest. In other words, the one-section chest of drawers was a dressing cabinet. When a chest of drawers had two sections, theupper was slightly smaller than the lower and the divi-sion between the two was marked by a bold moulding.The upper section usually had a straight top, finishedwith a cornice and either a projecting ovolo (Fig. 4. A)or a flat frieze. Sometimes the top was single hoodedor the hood was shaped into a broken pediment. Chestsof this sort were known as tallboys and were nearakin to highboys. On both one- and two-section cheststhe feet were either straight bracket (Fig, 4, F) or bun
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WILLIAM AND MARY 83 (Fig. 4, 0, and Key III; 1, 2 and 3). The drawers wereeither separated and edged by broad half-round mould-ings on the stiles and rails of the carcase or else thestile and rail surfaces were flat and the drawer frontsflush with them. All the usual decorative processeswere lavishly used on both sorts of chests of drawers. Another variety of the two-piece chest of drawershad a lower section consisting of a very low stand (KeyI, 5) on legs of spiral-turned, cup-turned or, very latein the period, cabriole pattern, the cabriole having anangle on the outer curve and a ring (Fig. 4, E) orcollar (Fig. 4, E) of moulding below the knee. Thestands with cabriole legs had no stretchers. These lowstands sometimes had one long or two (Key I, 5) shortshallow drawers. This latter variety of two-sectionchest of drawers was even closer to the highboy thanthe former, but was too low and squat to be so classified.These low two-section chests and the one-section chestswere further marke

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