Figure 31  Detail of a piece of molding from the Mabee House, 1690-1710. (Photo, Gavin Ashworth.) Two pieces of this molding survive and both are 75" long with miters and ninety-degree cuts at one end. While it has been suggested that they were pilasters underneath the returns of the fireplace smoke hood in the earliest part of the house, the exact context for the moldings is unclear. The fragments retain an original coat of verdigris paint.