. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . d rings;But heavy, and wide, and deep, and grand,Fit for the worthies of the land,—Chief Justice Sewell, a cause to try Cotton Mather to sit—and lie—in. Turned chairs of the colonies were usually of hickory or maple, andseem to have been copied in the settlements from Old Country models at an early period. To copy the solid old wainscotchair (the other style) was beyond the resources ofcolonial workers for many years, as it was almostinvariably carved, and with stout stretchers tostrengthen the under frame. To render the
. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . d rings;But heavy, and wide, and deep, and grand,Fit for the worthies of the land,—Chief Justice Sewell, a cause to try Cotton Mather to sit—and lie—in. Turned chairs of the colonies were usually of hickory or maple, andseem to have been copied in the settlements from Old Country models at an early period. To copy the solid old wainscotchair (the other style) was beyond the resources ofcolonial workers for many years, as it was almostinvariably carved, and with stout stretchers tostrengthen the under frame. To render the oakenseat more comfortable, cushions were, as in England,used, judging from such items as agreate cheare and quoshen, found in theinventories of the seventeenth and earlyeighteenth centuries. We have alreadypaid tribute to the naive inscriptionupon that interesting survival—historic-ally and decoratively—of the wainscot order, WilliamPenns chair in Independence Hall, Philadelphia:— I know not where, I know not in this chair sat William WILUAM PENNS HALL,PHILADELPHIA.
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