The Collector's ManualFrederick A. Stokes Company, 1906 - 329 pages |
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Adam brothers beautiful belonged bottles brass BRASS AND COPPER brought bureau cabinet-makers called candles candlesticks carved CHAIRS AND SOFAS chest china Chippendale clock clockmakers collector colour copper copper lustre COPPER UTENSILS COTTAGE ORNAMENTS cupboard decoration designs drawers Dutch early ébéniste eighteenth century elegant Eli Terry England English engraved favourite feet frame French given in Figure glass glaze handles handsome Hepplewhite household inlaid inventory iron Item kettle known lamps legs LUSTRE WARE mahogany maker marked marquetry Massachusetts metal moulds Mount Vernon OLD PEWTER owner painted pair panels pattern pewter pieces of furniture pitcher plain plate porringers pottery salt glaze satinwood seen settee shape Sheraton shown in Figure shows side sideboard silver lustre solid specimens spoons Staffordshire STAFFORDSHIRE FIGURES style table furniture Thomas Shearer vase veneered walnut Wedgwood Windsor chairs wood York
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Page 182 - ... as well lodged as the lord of the town : So well were they contented. Pillows, said they, were thought meet only for women in childbed : As for servants, if they had any sheet above them it was well : For seldom had they any under their bodies to keep them from the pricking straws that ran oft through the canvass, and rased their hardened hides.
Page 68 - IN tattered old slippers that toast at the bars, And a ragged old jacket perfumed with cigars, Away from the world and its toils and its cares, I've a snug little kingdom up four pair of stairs. To mount to this realm is a toil, to be sure, But the fire there is bright and the air rather pure ; And the view I behold on a sunshiny day Is grand through the chimney-pots over the way. This snug little chamber is...
Page 69 - Tis a murderous knife to toast muffins upon. Long, long, through the hours, and the night and the chimes, Here we talk of old books, and old friends, and old times ; As we sit in a fog made of rich Latakie, This chamber is pleasant to you, friend, and me. But of all the cheap treasures that garnish my nest, There 's one that I love and I cherish the best ; For the finest of couches; that's padded with hair, I never would change thee, my cane-bottomed chair. 'Tis...
Page 70 - Portsmouth's dressing-room within her bedchamber, where she was in her morning loose garment, her maids combing her, newly out of her bed, his Majesty and the gallants standing about her ; but that which engaged my curiosity was the rich and splendid furniture of this woman's apartment, now twice or thrice pulled down and rebuilt to satisfy her prodigal and expensive pleasures, whilst her Majesty's does not exceed some gentlemen's ladies in furniture and accommodation.
Page 62 - ... now it is descended yet lower even unto the inferior artificers and many farmers, who, by virtue of their old and not of their new leases, have for the most part learned also to garnish their cupboards with plate, their joined beds with tapestry and silk hangings, and their tables with carpets and fine napery, whereby the wealth of our country (God be praised therefore, and give us grace to employ it well) doth infinitely appear.
Page 106 - As for drink, it is usually filled in pots, goblets, jugs, bowls of silver, in noblemen's houses; also in fine Venice glasses of all forms; and, for want of these elsewhere, in pots of earth of sundry colours and moulds, whereof many are garnished with silver, or at the leastwise in pewter...
Page 289 - CHIPPENDALE, THOMAS. — The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director. Being a large collection of the most Elegant and Useful Designs of Household Furniture in the Gothic, Chinese and Modern Taste...
Page 69 - Old rickety tables, and chairs broken-backed; A twopenny treasury, wondrous to see; What matter! 'tis pleasant to you, friend, and me. No better divan need the Sultan require, Than the creaking old sofa that basks by the fire; And 'tis wonderful, surely, what music you get From the rickety, ramshackle, wheezy spinet. That praying-rug came from a Turcoman's camp; By Tiber once twinkled that brazen...