Winterthur Guide to American Chippendale Furniture: Middle Atlantic and Southern Colonies

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A Winterthur Guide to American Chippendale Furniture Middle Atlantic and Southern Colonies Charles F. Hummel Over 150 illustrations

AMERICAN CHIPPENDALE FURNITURE

The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum is famous for its collection of early American fine art and decorative art. Nearly two hundred period rooms and special displays illustrate in detail how Americans lived, from Colonial days through the years of the young Republic. Furniture and textiles, silver and pewter, porcelain and earthenware, paintings and prints, have been assembled into a series of domest ic settings incorporating paneling and other architectural features taken from old houses, ranging from New Hampshire to Georgia. Publication of the first three books in the Winterthur Guide series celebrates not only our nation's bicentennial but also the twenty-fifth anniversary of the opening of the Winterthur Museum.

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Cover Illu stration : High Ch est of Drawers . It is difficult to f ind

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