Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York : Harper & Bros. · leaf 88
cabinet-making—unless one can say thatthe alphabet is poetry. If not the most beautiful, the Gothic is certainly the most picturesqueof all the styles of furnishing; and its religious character, its symbolism, inwhich every moulding, every debellation, has its religious meaning, doesnot unfit it… … Modem Gothic Sideboard. it a severe study, it is apt to be full of error. An anachronism in itselfwhen transplanted to another era, the unlearned are liable to make itsevery item an anachronism too; they will give us a carving of tropical 84 ART DECORATION APPLIED TO FURNITURE. plants upon this…
Furniture · Decoration and ornament
Internet Archive · Clark Art Institute Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
