 Author Name: HALSEY, R.T.H. & TOWER ELIZABETH.
Title: HOMES OF OUR ANCESTORS: AS SHOWN IN THE AMERICAN WING OF THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART OF NEW YORK from the beginnings in New England through the early days of the Republic
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Very Good Plus in Good Plus dj
Publisher: New York: Doubleday & Company, 1946.
Seller ID: 1907
Arts and Interiors, Home Decorations, Cabinet Making, Silversmithing, as shown in the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Illustrated with 217 black and white figures and 20 four color plates. Frontispiece color portrait of the Washington Family, Edward Savage. Many of the color plates are of full rooms; such as, A Satin Hung Parlor from Petersburg Virginia; tea table with cabriole legs and slipper feet; Veneered and inlaid highboy and lowboy; plates of 18th century Silver Teapots; American Queen Anne Settee; Slant Back Chairs; Chelsea porcelain Satuette of William Pitt; Elaborate Philadelphia Highboy; Chinese Painted Wall Paper; Silver Teapot by Payl Revere; Queens ware from the pottery at Leeds; a 17th Century room; Parson Capen house, 1683, Ma.; Silver Tankard by Edward Winslow. The American Wing was made possible by the gift of Robert W. and Emily Johnston de Forest. It was opened to visitors on November 11, 1924. It is the visual personification of home life in this country from almost the beginnings of New England until the end of the first quarter of the 19th Century, when the New Republic had become firmly established. The rooms are representative of parsons, planters, mariners, merchants and tradesmen. A wonderful comprehensive book for any American antique scholar or collector.
Blue cloth boards and spine. DW price clipped, pictorial of "A Parlor from Haverhill, Ma., with a gay old French Hunting Wall-Paper and Furnishings". Chipping and wear to edges; 1 3/4 V shaped chip to upper spine. In protective brodart mylar. sm 4 to, 302. Decorative private library plate to paste down, engraving of a house ex-libris Ralph and Anne Woods. Pale stain from sticker removal above. All else very clean text, tightly bound.
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