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Art decoration applied to furniture (1878)

Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York : Harper & Bros. · leaf 90

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Modern Gothic Chair. THE GOTHIC STYLE. 85 and heraldic lions framed in circles, and others show Gothic charac-ters alternating with checks. The bands, from their constant Saracenicassociation, are always correct, and can in themselves contain these ear- … Modem Gothic Piano. lier emblems. The colors should seldom be vivid, although they maybe rich, for undue brilliancy would give too new an appearance for thedingy worsteds and faded silks of the old tapestries and cloths; the brickreds, dull peacock blues, and black and golds, together with the…

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