A. Dovetail joint: the antic gilded arm chair usual English method.
B. Shouldering: more common on continental furniture.
For a few years either way of 1700, there was an Anglo-Dutch class of furniture, some of which defies final analysis. It could have been made in Holland and brought to Britain; it could have been made in Britain [...]

DRESSERS  with shelves, and tridarns
It may seem odd to start a section on dressers with shelves by discussing tridarns, but they are closely linked both in their Welsh origin and in the possibility that the court (short) cupboard had a third layer
superimposed on top purely for display and that this proved so popular that the [...]