The practical book of early American arts and crafts . PAINTED METAL TRAY WITH BUFF GROUND AND DARK BORDER, FLOWERED AND HATCHED; EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY In possession of Abbot McClure, EIGHTEENTH AND EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY TOLEWARE OR TIN WITH DECORATIVE PAINTING Courtesy of John C. Nippes, Esq., Haddonfield, New Jersey DECORATIVE PAINTING 251 of the top rail. This decoration was sometimes paintedin black from a stencil pattern and sometimes in colours,with a touch of gilding added. Not a few of the toprails and cross rails of chairs and settees were dec-orated by the application of
The practical book of early American arts and crafts . PAINTED METAL TRAY WITH BUFF GROUND AND DARK BORDER, FLOWERED AND HATCHED; EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY In possession of Abbot McClure, EIGHTEENTH AND EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY TOLEWARE OR TIN WITH DECORATIVE PAINTING Courtesy of John C. Nippes, Esq., Haddonfield, New Jersey DECORATIVE PAINTING 251 of the top rail. This decoration was sometimes paintedin black from a stencil pattern and sometimes in colours,with a touch of gilding added. Not a few of the toprails and cross rails of chairs and settees were dec-orated by the application of transfer designs, laid onin the same manner as decalcomanias. The metalliccolours and the exact repetition of the same design inhundreds of cases prove this beyond painting of chairs and settees of both this type andthe Windsor pattern was common throughout the coun-try. Chairs of a late Sheraton type also came in for ashare of decorative painting. During the early nineteenth century—^the AmericanEmpire period in furniture—the practice was prevalentof applying a stencilled decoration to furniture withgUt. Colours, too, were frequently included in thescheme of embel
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