Highland House Publishers.('Hornors Blue Book')

HORNORS BLUE BOOK

372 PAGES OF PHILADELPHIA ANTIQUES FULLY INDEXED

Nearly sixty years after it was published, Hornor's Blue Book stands alone as the most eloquent and erudite classic on Philadelphia Chippendale furniture. Rigorously researched, elegantly written, closely reasoned, and splendidly produced the panoramic sweep of the pioneering volume provided both an interpretation and method of investigation against which future studies of early American furniture had to be tested. Now reissued and lavishly illustrated in color by Highland House Publishers, a marvelously lucid introduction by Joe Kindig, III has been added which explores with intelligence and insight the rich distinctiveness of the Philadelphia school of cabinetmaking. This splendid book is history as art.

Wendell Garrett

The Magazine Antiques

A fully developed high chest inherited by Sarah Franklin Bache from her father, Benjamin Franklin. The composition and drawer arrangement as well as the lines, the tall, graceful cabriole legs and the accentuated verticality of the scrolled arches suggest an early example in the Chippendale style. This is further supported by the large, simple, carved shell of the skirt; the applied, pierced, carved shell and leafage of the scroll-board and the embryonic quality of the acanthus leaf knee carving. The beautiful ...