Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 117
debasement, of the lesspretentious but more pleasingElizabethan. Of late years a revival of thisstyle has taken place under mod-ifications that entitle it to thename of Neo-Jacobean, modernideas being applied to the fash-ions of two hundred and fiftyyears ago, and modern art doingits best in the… … Another Jacobean Court Cupboard. THE JACOBEAN. 113 style has undergone is in the reduced size of its articles and of their mem-bers, so that the huge acorn becomes something much more like a longslim vase, and chimney-pieces ornament a room without crushing it withtheir importance, in the dismissal…
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