Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 68
e as a new world. There are mahogany tea-trays, sometimes per-fectly plain, sometimes as richly carved as the Renaissance bellows; thereare curious little tables for turning out tea, with a rim standing up aroundthem; there are embroidery frames and easels; and there are the hang-ing cabinets.… … Couvre-fen, Seventeenth Century; Italian Bellows, Sixteenth Cen-tury; Italian Bronze Andirons, same Date; Gobelins Tapestry,Time of Louis XIV. ART DECORATION APPLIED TO FURNITURE. various objets de vertu of the house. This, also, is a fashion lately revived,even by those who do not care to use the…
Furniture · Interior decoration
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