The architecture of the Renaissance in France; a history of the evolution of the arts of building, decoration and garden design under classical influence from 1495 to 1830 (1911)
lived Trianon de porcelaine to be built in what was supposed to be the style of a pagoda, and decorated inside and out in blue andwhite with enamelled tiles and earthenware figures made at St Cloud.This was an isolated caprice, but forty years later China became therage. An art so far removed from… … 350. Arabesque by F. Cuvillies, Sen. the gross or puerile grotesquesof the sixteenth century, andthe sinister and leering ones ofthe age of Louis XIII., theeighteenth century found amore genial and playful typein Chinoiseries ; and sincein the ideas of the time therewas but a step from the Sons…
