Beautiful homes. Or, Hints in house furnishing (1878)
Williams, Henry T, Jones, C. S., Mrs · New York, H. T. Williams · leaf 130
nd trimmed with rich gimpand fringe. Imitation of marble with plaster, forms one of the most exquisite shelves im-aginable. The shelf is supported by long flat wooden brackets, (as in the or-dinary wooden mantel,) the whole is covered smoothly with muslin, and washedor painted with a mixture of… … Fig. 66. many, for this is the great fault with all imitations, they are applied with sucha generous hand, that the critical observer is immediately led to imagine thatthe work is not genuine, and a close examination follows ; whereas, were thereno more ornament than one is apt to see on flue…
Interior decoration · Decoration and ornament
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