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The appearance of the bombtf form in Boston poses a number of complex, unanswered, and perhaps unanswerable questions. What is the origin of the form that became so popular in …
The Bom be Furniture of Boston
T HE American bombtf cascpiecc is among the most ou[standing furniture forms produced by American eighteenth-century craftsmen. Bomb£ furniture is rare, well designed, and skillfully constructed. More importantly for the …
Boston В lock front Furniture
The ires arc undeniably forwarder in Massachusetts-Bay, thin either in Решу I vania or New York, The public buildings are more elegant; and there is a more general cum for …
Boston’s ColonialJapanners: The. Documentary Record
F OR decades, scholars have been looking with fascination at colonial japanned fumiLure made in Boston. They have lavished attention on these pieces, elegant or gaudy, according to your eye, …
Boston Japanned Furniture
who advertised in The Button News-Letter of April 25 - May 2, 1715; “ Looki ng-G lasses of all sorts. Glass Sconces, Cabbinctts Esc г u to ires Chcsts4>f*Dnweis, Tables, …
Boston Japanned Furniture
T HE exoticism of the East has long whetted the imagination of Western man. In our early decorative arts, the colonies felt shimmers of the Orient through ceramics, textiles, furniture, …
The Boston Furniture Industry
1720-1740 The Artificers in this Place Exceed Ary upon ye Continent And are here also Most Numerous as Cabinet Makers, Chacc A Coach Makers. „ . ’Watchmakers. Printers, Smiths, &C.1 …
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
В " O ST О К furniture of the eighteenth century has long inrer- , ested informed collectors and students of furniture history. Yet, no book has been devoted to …
