The architecture of country houses : including designs for cottages, farm houses, and villas, with remarks on interiors, furniture, and the best modes of warming and ventilating (1851)
Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852, Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870 · New York : D. Appleton & Company, 200 Broadway ; Philadelphia : Geo S. Appleton, 164 Chestnut-Street · leaf 457
ny forms of these may now behad of terra-cotta—a material not only cheap, but especiallysuitable for country houses, in design and execution. Amongthese we may notice hanging flower-baskets, as shown inthe large window of Fig. 176, and a larger view of which is * A complete set of the cast of… … given in Fig. 177. Forbay-^vindows, these arcadmirably adapted, andtheir effect, when filledwith flowers, is extremelypretty. Of the modern Frenchstyle, now so mncli ad-mired and so much adopt-ed in om* to%vn houses, [Fig. 177. Hanging Terra-Cotta Basket] WC do UOt offcr any SpC- cimens, because,…
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