ribbon-back

It had been made to accommodate a dozen guests at the least, but now the ribbon-back chairs had been reduced to a paltry seven.

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She set about making a cheese souffle now and while it was in the oven laid the table in the small dining room, made even smaller by reason of the Regency oval table with its graceful ribbon-back chairs and the elegant side table which took up the whole of one wall.

Two Weeks To Remember Neels, Betty 1986

The center splat was solid at first, but soon was pierced and carved, and went through the many developments of his style such as ribbon-back, Chinese, and Gothic.

Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today Lucy Abbot Throop

[Illustration: Two important phases of Chippendale's work -- an elaborate ribbon-back chair, and one of the more staid Gothic type.] [Illustration: An elaborately carved and gilded Chippendale mantel mirror, showing French influence.] [Illustration: One of the most beautiful examples of Chippendale's fretwork tea-tables in existence.] _Chippendale and the Eighteenth Century in England.

Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today Lucy Abbot Throop