Plate X L I Extension Diningtable
The type of chair which is earliest in style, if not in point of date, is that in which the Sheraton influence is strongest. This type has the horseshoe-shaped seat, with two straight reeded legs in front and with back legs gently curved, continuing the line of the back posts. In this type, the known variations are as follows The horseshoe seat is reeded as are the back posts, the crossbars of the back, and the front legs which terminate in small brass lions' feet below the characteristic...
Plate Li Cheval Glass
large urn-shaped member as i s predominating feature. The urn is sometimes plain, more often carved with acanthus or reeded. The base moulding about the urn is frequently carved. Another of these turned shafts Plate XXXVI is undecorated except for a broad reeded drum near its base. The legs three or four are either carved with acanthus and reeding on their top surfaces or are moulded. The feet are lion's paws, usually brass, although sometimes of wood. The tables with this form of base include...
The End Of Knickerbocker New York
Knickerbocker New York is gone In the tall canyons of lower Manhattan, few are the landmarks which recall to us the little city whose more fashionable citizens drove on bright spring afternoons to the pleasant country suburb of Greenwich Village, doubtless relieved, good horsemen as they were, that the hard paving of Broadway stopped at City Hall The residences of people of fashion were then found on the Battery, while of the highest respectability were lower Broadway, upper Pearl and Nassau...