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Egg-and-dart moulding

Home furnishings; General furniture

A carved moulding resembling ovals, or "eggs," alternating with triangular arrowheads, or "darts" .

Bureau

Home furnishings; General furniture

Writing table or desk whose French name derives from bure , a coarse cloth used in the Middle Ages to cover tables at which clerks wrote. Beginning in the 18th century various designs featured a ...

Cresting

Home furnishings; General furniture

Shaped and sometimes perforated ornament on the top of a structure, as in the cresting of a chair.

Bedside chest

Home furnishings; General furniture

A small bed-high chest with drawers. Also known as a nightstand or commode.

Neo-classical style which predominated from circa 1760 to 1790, and named after the Scottish architects, brothers Robert and James Adam. It is characterised by slender, graceful lines and by motifs ...