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Art decoration applied to furniture (1878)

Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York : Harper & Bros. · leaf 111

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like pilasters and their Terma3 between the doors, and with allsorts of relief in the favorite style of work, sometimes with sculj^turedfigures and groups, the mighty cornice meanwhile upheld by pillars thatagain put forth the globular excrescence at some point, usually at aboutthe centre of their… … Elizabethan Table from Longford Castle. THE ELIZABETHAN. 107 size of the rooms for which these articles were designed should always betaken into account both in judging them and imitating them; for massiveand mighty pieces, within narrowbounds, simply assume their fitand un noticeable size when…

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