Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 107
102 ART DECORATION APPLIED TO FURNITURE. acenic. The strap-work, indeed, which was the first distinguishing featureof the Elizabethan, was, after all, nothing but a play of line, and allowedthe greatest liberty to the individual artist. It required genius, though, … Elizabethan Table from Leeds Castle, Kent. to develop it properly, and it was too frequently nothing but a medley ofuninteresting sequences; and when the shield-work was added, and piercedshield-work at that, it sometimes became confusion worse confounded.This strap and shield work, it may be…
Furniture · Interior decoration
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