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Excerpt from English Furniture, Silver and Decorations, Fine XVII-XVIII Century Cabinet Work, Old English Silver and Pewter, Oriental Porcelain and Pottery, Silk Damask and Brocades: Property of H. Douglas Curry and Co. Inc., New York City Furniture of the first half of the eighteenth century includes a delight ful small walnut bookcase bureau of the Queen Anne period, which typifies the dainty elegance of this fascinating era. The magnificence of England's great houses during the periods of the first and second Georges is illus trated by the splendid set of eight mahogany and damask cabriole-leg chairs and the gilded pier mirror with its arched and shaped crests and beveled glass. Oak, the most native of all English woods and one which personifies for us qualities both physical and metaphysical, instantly suggests to the mind of one venerating old furniture the highly romantic Elizabethan and Stuart periods. Thus we have the two splendidly carved oak court cup boards. One of which is dated 1674 and is inlaid with a light colored wood. Probably pearwood, a revival of the Elizabethan tradition resulting from the restoration of the monarchy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.