Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 49
the Classic, havingconquered the Gothic, was constantly struggling with the Rococo, andeven with the Chinese; but Chippendale and Sheraton, in spite of somesacrifices to the Moloch of the hour, made a few excellent designs forfurniture, among them some for tables. Several of Chippendales thatare… … Flemish Tables. THE TABLE. 45 ably oat of deference to the love of tea and china that was just thenepidemic. To-day we employ freely whatever beautiful forms have been in-vented when not altogether beyond onr reach ; but we discard the bar-barons splendor of onr ancestors, and consider onr plain…
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