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Historic styles of ornament (1898)

Dolmetsch, H · London: Batsford · leaf 306

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er Saint-Ange, who was doubtless engaged in the Gobelin manufacture, but whose name, like that ofmany other capable artistsof the kind, is but littleknown, and would have beencompletely forgotten, hadthey not also occupied them-selves in preparing designsto be engraved on copper,through the… … Fig. 6. tent with reproducing in itscenes from the time of theemperors which were almostdevoid of decoration. It is interesting to com-pare the form of the fruitbasket in Fig. i with thosein Figs. 2 and 4 of PI. 82B,observing how the freedomof the age of Louis XV.changes in the following pe-riod to…

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