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The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history (1910)

Foley, Edwin · London : T.C. and E.C. Jack · leaf 325

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y the cross-grained slices of walnut or Lignum vitce boughs from whichthe veneer was cut). Fromniug of theinfluence in mar-queterie, walnut fur-niture was bleachedalso, to enhance theeffect. Despite thegreenery-yallerytendency, which agehas greatly intensifiedwhen laburnum wasused, inlaid mobilia… … MAEQUETERIE TABLE-TOP, WITH OYSTER WORK FRAME,(SIR GEORGE DONALDSON.) ••THE INDIAN TASTE Though examples of that most charming of the decorative pro-cesses of the Orient, the art of lacquering, were imported in increasingquantities from the Indies, China, and Japan throughout the seven-teenth…

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