Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 100
such a medley as the wholecareer of the Renaissance—classical and Saracenic ornaments on the samepiece of work; panels faceted and cut like jewels; the square parting thecircle; human and ideal figures, and those of birds and beasts and reptiles,natural, conventional, and grotesque; the crescent,… … Piano, Louis XIII. It was the second stage of this style that Francis I. brought intoFrance, and that was so universally adopted there under his successor, infurniture and in all other ornamentation, that it acquired the name ofHenri Deux. Its shapes were tall and rather narrow ; frequently the…
Furniture · Interior decoration
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