The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods . s (Plate XXXII, p. 240). SIDEBOARDS Sheraton is properly credited with perfecting thesideboard. The typical Sheraton sideboard (Key XIV,3; Plates XXXI and XXXV, p. 236, p. 254), which onemay always be safe in ascribing to Sheraton provenance,has either slender, turned and reeded legs supporting asuperstructure in which there are deep drawers or cup-boards at either end and a shallow drawer or cupboardin the middle of the shaped (Key XIV, 1) or straigh
The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods . s (Plate XXXII, p. 240). SIDEBOARDS Sheraton is properly credited with perfecting thesideboard. The typical Sheraton sideboard (Key XIV,3; Plates XXXI and XXXV, p. 236, p. 254), which onemay always be safe in ascribing to Sheraton provenance,has either slender, turned and reeded legs supporting asuperstructure in which there are deep drawers or cup-boards at either end and a shallow drawer or cupboardin the middle of the shaped (Key XIV, 1) or straightfront, or else the ends are square, projecting somewhatfrom the straight middle portion, and are carried downalmost to the floor as cupboards (Key XIV, 3). Thesesquare ends are oftentimes built up above the top of themiddle portion to serve as bases for the support ofknife boxes or knife urns. Sheraton also designed other sideboards of a pat-tern which we habitually associate with the name ofHepplewhite (Key XIV, 1, and Plate XXXI, p. 236).These sideboards had shaped fronts (Key XIV, 1; andPlate XXXI, p. 236) and square tapered legs (Key. PAINTED CANED SEAT SHERATON ARM CHAIR, VASE BALUSTER ARM SUPPORTS By Courtesy of Miss Sarah Dobson Fiske, Philadelphia
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