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The art of beauty (1883)

Haweis, Mary Eliza Joy, 1852-1898 · London : Chatto & Windus · leaf 266

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nd is seen to be full of real art-feeling, and skill.The petals of the conventional flowers, are alternatelyconcave and flat, and thus the light that strikes upon FORM IN FURNITURE. 245 them, lends them a variety of colour : the two sides ofcourse differ, although symmetrical, and the supportsare… … Fig. 85.—Seventeenth-century cabinet. to be promoted as an antique; but it is of a class thatdeserves notice, being genuine old English work, andgood of its kind. Many of the Dutch and Flemishcabinets of the same period are most elaborately andexquisitely carved. 246 BEAUTY AND SURROUNDINGS. I have…

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