Illustrated catalogue of old Chippendale, Sheraton and Hepplewhite furniture of great rarity and beauty : from the collections of Marsden J. Perry and Richard A. Canfield together with some Oriental porcelains and Barye Bronzes from Mr. Canfield's collection
This is a 1916 auction catalogue issued in New York by the American Art Association, documenting period English and American furniture from the collections of Marsden J. Perry and Richard A. Canfield for prospective bidders and collectors. The four plates show individual pieces photographed against plain backgrounds, with the lot numbers printed beneath, and the rotated third image is a carved settee rather than a flaw. A designer could take carved cabriole legs, claw-and-ball feet, pierced splats and pie-crust table edges as a reference vocabulary for eighteenth-century ornament.
