Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 228
r; with home-painted china andwater - colors; cheap tables covered with cloths embroidered by nimblelingers; screens where the scissors and paste-pot rivalled the Japanese;the one luxury of a fine piano, and a harp, most picturescpie and poeticalof shapes; and everywhere an abundance of… … Walnut Armoire, on Italian Pedestal, Sixteenth Century; Screen in Tapestry, Louis XIV., Subject TheKing and Mademoiselle de la Valliere. 22± ART DECORATION APPLIED TO FURNITURE, XXXVI. BRIO-A BR AC. IT is the bric-a-brac, the curious trifles, the movable ornaments and gew-gaws used for filling up…
Furniture · Interior decoration
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