The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods . SHEARER INLAID MAHOGANY SIDEBOARD WITH FLUTED AND QUILLED LEGSBy Courtesy of Miss Sarah Dobson Fiske, Philadelphia. MAHOGANY INLAID SERPENTINE FRONT SIDEBOARD. HEAVY IN PROPORTIONS AND PROBABLY TO BE ATTRIBUTED TO SHEARER By Courtesy of Messrs. Maple & Company, Tottenham Court Road, London PLATE XXXVII GEORGIAN MAKERS AND DESIGNERS 273 white made his beautiful inlaid sideboards with serpen-tine fronts and tapered legs, Shearer had not onlyevolved but
The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods . SHEARER INLAID MAHOGANY SIDEBOARD WITH FLUTED AND QUILLED LEGSBy Courtesy of Miss Sarah Dobson Fiske, Philadelphia. MAHOGANY INLAID SERPENTINE FRONT SIDEBOARD. HEAVY IN PROPORTIONS AND PROBABLY TO BE ATTRIBUTED TO SHEARER By Courtesy of Messrs. Maple & Company, Tottenham Court Road, London PLATE XXXVII GEORGIAN MAKERS AND DESIGNERS 273 white made his beautiful inlaid sideboards with serpen-tine fronts and tapered legs, Shearer had not onlyevolved but fully developed the main portion of thetype and had produced or designed sideboards of thispattern that compared favourably with anything thatHepplewhite or Sheraton produced later so far ascontour and proportions were concerned, although inthe introduction of sundry ingenious contrivancesSheraton carried sideboard-making a step farther thanit had ever reached before. In all of Shearers furniture he displayed great in-genuity of contrivance and structural knowledge. Theonly point in which his work occasionally suffers bycomparison with Hepplewhites or Sheratons is indelicacy and grace of line. If he had been a man ofbroader education and more insis
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