. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . iiOlM CUPBOARDS The traceried fronts of openwork dole cupboards or almeries, whichwere used as receptacles for the gifts—doles—of food to the necessitous,were usually perforated \vhen of pre-Stuart date, but the seventeenth-century woodworkers usually preferredto construct the front of columnsenclosed in a frame. Undoubtedlycupboards richly garnished existed ingreat numbers in Elizabethan andearly Stuart days, but in the troublespreceding the Commonwealth, drinkingvessels, plates, and other metal heir-looms were melted into coi

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. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . iiOlM CUPBOARDS The traceried fronts of openwork dole cupboards or almeries, whichwere used as receptacles for the gifts—doles—of food to the necessitous,were usually perforated \vhen of pre-Stuart date, but the seventeenth-century woodworkers usually preferredto construct the front of columnsenclosed in a frame. Undoubtedlycupboards richly garnished existed ingreat numbers in Elizabethan andearly Stuart days, but in the troublespreceding the Commonwealth, drinkingvessels, plates, and other metal heir-looms were melted into coin in greatnumbers; whilst each side zealouslylooted the other until there were sofew of the old cups to show on thecupboards that the latter were disusedor discarded: we have consequently far less examples than one wouldanticipate. ID Id 9111. gar^-ces^;

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