Publications of The Colonial Society of Massachusetts

Volume 48

BOSTON FURNITURE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

a conference held by the

colonial society of massachusetts

11 and 12 may 1972

BOSTON

The Colonial Society of Massachusetts

Distributed by The University Press of Virginia

copyright © 1974, the colonial society of massachusetts

library of congress catalogue card number 74–81739

printed from the income of the

sarah louise edes fund

Title-page illustration: Detail of pediment of Chest-on-Chest.

Made by John Cogswell. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, William Francis Warden Fund, 1973.289.) See also figs. 125, 139, and 143.