Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York : Harper & Bros. · leaf 107
d ceilings, per-haps, more closely than to articles of furniture. There are many ancientdrawing-rooms in England, in whose decoration there may be observed adelicate fancy of interlacing line on nearly as satisfying a plane as the Sar- 102 ART DECORATION APPLIED TO FURNITURE. acenic. The… … Elizabethan Table from Leeds Castle, Kent. to develop it properly, and it was too frequently nothing but a medley ofuninteresting sequences; and when the shield-work was added, and piercedshield-work at that, it sometimes became confusion worse confounded.This strap and shield work, it may be…
Furniture · Decoration and ornament
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