Bibliograph

Southern furniture 1680-1830, the Colonial Williamsburg collection, by Ronald L. Hurst and Jonathan Prown

Type

Label

Southern furniture 1680-1830, the Colonial Williamsburg collection, by Ronald L. Hurst and Jonathan Prown

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 617-623) and index

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Southern furniture 1680-1830

Nature of contents

bibliographycatalogs

Responsibility statement

by Ronald L. Hurst and Jonathan Prown

Series statement

Williamsburg decorative arts series

Sub title

the Colonial Williamsburg collection

Summary

The introductory essays are "followed by a catalogue of 183 entries, each of which examines in detail many of the important objects in the Colonial Williamsburg collection, " comprising 17th-, 18th-, and early 19th-century household furniture from Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, the District of Columbia, and North and South Carolina

Table Of Contents

The people and the places -- The Chesapeake / Ronald L. Hurst -- The low country / J. Thomas Savage -- The backcountry / Jonathan Prown -- The furniture -- Seating furniture -- Tables --Case furniture -- Other forms

Classification