The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods . inarily turned. The upper part, from the fram-ing, was in most cases turned and reeded and very oftenof vase shape at the lower part, tapering off to exceed-ingly slender dimensions at the top. Sheraton postswere always slender and graceful. Some of the laterpatterns, instead of reeding, had spiral turning (). The acanthus ornament also frequently appears onposts. Head-boards were either straight with down-ward scroll ends (Plate XXXVI, p. 260) o
The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods . inarily turned. The upper part, from the fram-ing, was in most cases turned and reeded and very oftenof vase shape at the lower part, tapering off to exceed-ingly slender dimensions at the top. Sheraton postswere always slender and graceful. Some of the laterpatterns, instead of reeding, had spiral turning (). The acanthus ornament also frequently appears onposts. Head-boards were either straight with down-ward scroll ends (Plate XXXVI, p. 260) or surmountedwith swan neck scrolls centring in an urn-shaped finial. TABLES Sheraton range or extension tables had shaped orsemi-circular ends and turned reeded or fluted legs(Fig. 5) and were similar in arrangement to the Hepple-white range tables. Card tables with turn-up leaf(Fig. 5) had shaped, serpentine or sprung (Fig. 5)fronts and the typical leg like those above edges of table-tops were frequently reeded horizon-tally (Fig. 5). Pembroke tables (Fig. 4) with squaretapered legs were similar to Hepplewhite tables of the. SHERATON INLAID MAHOGANY BOOKCASE OR CABINET By Courtesy of the Chapman Decorative Co., Philadelphia PLATE XXXIV THOMAS SHERATON 249
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