Early American Furniture Hepplewhite Sheraton Chippendale And Duncan Phyfe Pieces PDF Download

Excerpt from Early American Furniture, Paintings, Silver, Textiles and Decorative Objects: Phyfe Tables and Sofas; Ladder-Back, Chippendale, Sheraton and Other Chairs; Queen Anne Mirrors; Hepplewhite Bookcases; Philadelphia and Norwalk Samplers; Four-Post Bed-Steads; Grandfather Clocks; Silver; Porcelains and Glass Ware In the house itself, which has a delightful old world atmosphere, the main entrance hall was tastefully furnished with a large Duncan Phyfe sofa against the staircase and, at the opposite wall, a very charming Duncan Phyfe table of rarest quality and possibly the only one of its kind in existence, flanked on either side by a pair of beautiful XVIII century chairs, with a number of beautiful mirrors and portraits around the walls. On the right of the hall is a small reception room, with a quantity of exceptional pieces, prominent amongst them being a delightful mahogany tripod table with pie-crust top, a very charming Duncan Phyfe work-table similar to one in the Metropolitan Museum, two very important card-tables, one in the Chinese Chippendale style, and some very fine chairs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.