Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York : Harper & Bros. · leaf 143
inged angels,as some modern painters do, they ar-ranged Helens hair as a French hair-dresser would arrange it, gave a Pa-risian cut to peplum and chlamys,put implements of the present intothe hands of the past, mixed the de-tails of their ornament inextricably, First Empire Armchair-scattered the… … THE FIRST EMPIRE. 139 The whole contour of furniture and its decoration, in the attempt torepresent the antique, was as conspicuously inexact as the short-waistedgown and ruff of Josephine were in representing the lovely dress ofAspasia and Rhodope. Vague ideas without precise information movedthe…
Furniture · Decoration and ornament
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