Figure 73 Detail of a piece of molding from
the Mabee House, 1680-1720. (Photo, Gavin Ashworth.) Three sections of
this molding survive, two of which are installed in a window
as embrasure trim. However, the single loose piece has the same verdigris
paint as the fireplace cornice, and all three of the pieces like that
shown here may originally have been a box bed cornice or a cornice from
a lost kast. |