March 24, 2009
In a recent post I mentioned a John Henry Belter sofa design that integrated uncommon Belter themes of sea serpents, lion arms and carved paw feet. Photos of this sofa can be found on page 65 of the Belter book and are shown in this post. Another less common attribute of this particular sofa is [...]
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March 19, 2009
I hadn’t been paying attention. It took a couple years into my Victorian furniture “mindshift” for me to notice that some of the attributed John Henry Belter chairs had lions carved into the arms. I had probably seen hundreds of photos of Belter furniture and had kept overlooking those with these rarer design variations where [...]
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