Article: The furniture of John Erhart Rose.("FIRST RATE & FASHIONABLE")(Biography)

Fanny Kemble (1809-1893), the renowned English, actress traveling in the American South in 1838, could well have been describing a piece of furniture by the cabinetmaker John Erhart Rose when she wrote in her diary:

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I ran through all the rooms on the floor, of which the doors were open ... on one I found a magnificent chest of drawers .... Again, the savage passion for ornament occurred to me as I looked at this piece of furniture, which might have adorned the most luxurious bedroom of the wealthiest citizen in New York--here in this wilderness, in a house which seemed just cut out of the trees ... where the only kitchen was an open ...

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