Important English Furniture, Including the Noted Chippendale Collection Assembled by Richard A. Canfield

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Excerpt from Important English Furniture, Including the Noted Chippendale Collection Assembled by Richard A. Canfield: A Small Group of American Pieces, Four Georgian Cut Glass Chandeliers, English Porcelains and Pottery, Chinese Porcelains, Georgian Silver, Set of Early English Silver Apostle Spoons, Oriental RugsProvidence and is distinctive in a locality of charming Colonial homes that has somehow managed to survive the standardizing in¿uences of modern civilization. The house, built in 1786 by John Brown, the richest merchant in Providence, as the Duke de la rochefoucauld-liancourt records him, proclaims the skill of the architect, Robert Adam, and justly merits John Quincy Adams' description of being the most magnificent and elegant private mansion-that I have ever seen on this continent. Its origi nal occupant, a man of more than usual ability and patriotism, whose life is recorded at considerable length by Appleton, enjoyed the crowning triumph of entertaining George Washington as a guest in this house.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.