The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods . ^5 — 7Q. WILLIAM AND MARY (i lared with a moulding below the knee and sometimesboth ring and angle occur (Fig. 1, B, and Fig. 4, E). Seats were approximately square with a slight nar-rowing towards the back (Fig. 2) and the framing waseither visible or upholstered. The front legs of sidechairs were dowelled into the seat rails. At the ex-treme end of the period the frontcorners of seat framing weresometimes rounded. Backs for the most part werehigh an
The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods . ^5 — 7Q. WILLIAM AND MARY (i lared with a moulding below the knee and sometimesboth ring and angle occur (Fig. 1, B, and Fig. 4, E). Seats were approximately square with a slight nar-rowing towards the back (Fig. 2) and the framing waseither visible or upholstered. The front legs of sidechairs were dowelled into the seat rails. At the ex-treme end of the period the frontcorners of seat framing weresometimes rounded. Backs for the most part werehigh and were caned, carved, up-holstered or balustered. Oftenthere was a combination of carv-ing and upholstery or caningand carving. Nearly all of thecaned and upholstered backs,especially, were high (Fig. 2),and the upholstered backs usu-ally had more rake than thecaned backs. Banister backchairs had the same generalcharacteristics as the cane-backed chairs, except that fouror more split balusters were used in the back insteadof caning. The tops of the upholstered backs werestraight across (Fig. 2) or else shaped in Spanish wisewith cyma curves and se
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