Illustrated FURNITURE Glossary.........Empire style...........Lyre

Empire Phyfe style lyre music-rack
Reprinted from Colonial Furniture in America, By Luke Vincent Lockwood, 1926

Five compartments for music in the upper section. Below that is a long drawer and still lower is an open shelf.

The sides are lyre-shaped, the base representing inverted lyres.


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