. The Jacob Paxson Temple collection of early American furniture and objects of art [electronic resource]. I. MAHOGANY LOWBOYBY 8AVERY, ABOUT 17(50 Saxon temperament, which horrowed certain details from the French,hut was nevertheless thoroughly original. The American furnituremakers followed the English styles. They knew them, not only throughpieces imported from England, but also through the publications andalliums in which Chippendale introduced his new designs to the cities like Boston, Salem, Providence, New York, Philadelphia andBaltimore, a rich class
. The Jacob Paxson Temple collection of early American furniture and objects of art [electronic resource]. I. MAHOGANY LOWBOYBY 8AVERY, ABOUT 17(50 Saxon temperament, which horrowed certain details from the French,hut was nevertheless thoroughly original. The American furnituremakers followed the English styles. They knew them, not only throughpieces imported from England, but also through the publications andalliums in which Chippendale introduced his new designs to the cities like Boston, Salem, Providence, New York, Philadelphia andBaltimore, a rich class 6f merchants and hankers had developed, whosaw the centre of their trade no longer in England, hut in their ownhome cities. Nothing is more impressive than to walk over the old hillin Providence where one stately mansion, surrounded hy vast gardens,follows the other. This hcautiful quarter, almost untouched for onehundred and fifty years, is the best object lesson in the prosperity ofthe American Colonies in prc-Revolutionary days. No wonder thatfurniture makers of repute prospered in all important citi
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