Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York : Harper & Bros. · leaf 74
estion of inner color, as the ma- THE MATERIAL. 69 pie, the rosewood, and mahogany do, except in the mottled polished sur-faces of the kind called French walnnt. During the reign of the Rococo,furniture was made of any wood that came to hand, and overlaid with gild-ing and with ornament. Tables of… … Italian Oak Pedestal. ways impose itself upon this princely company. It is only within the lastscore of years that attention has been once more directed to solidity, andwe have begun again to furnish our bedrooms in the sweet and cleanlylight oak, and have learned that the once undreamed-of yellow…
Furniture · Decoration and ornament
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