Corner cupboard

The art of painting furniture and architectural surfaces to look like costly figured wood or polished stone was practiced in Britain as early as the fifteenth century. Known as graining or marbling, the technique was introduced to America before the end of the seventeenth century although little from that period survives. One of the earliest written American references to the practice concerned the newly erected Capitol in Williamsburg, Virginia. In 1705, it was ordered "that The wanscote and other Wooden Work on the first and Second ffloor in that part of ye Building where ye General Court is be painted Like Marble."

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