"So successful is the modest piece of artistic ornamentation that one feels the time must come when our best artists generally will contribute the creation of their genius to the adornment of American homes..."

A period quote from, "Artistic Houses, Being a Series of Interior Views of a Number of the Most Beautiful and Celebrated Home in the Untied States", published in 1884 and describing the use of this model in the interior of Robert Treat Paine's home in Boston.

Visible here but not in "Artistic Houses" are the wonderful side panels that are beautifully decorated with stylized aesthetic floral designs.