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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 420

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diagonal and closely interlaced, the spacesbetween being filled with paterce, was also animportant element, whilst the royal cipher, thedouble L forming the central ornament upon aturquoise-blue ground, in Colour Plate No.XLI., was inset in a true oval during Louisthe Fourteenths days, as distinct… … DOOR PANEL. HOTEL MAZARIN.SUKMOUNTED BY LIONS SKIN. LA CHINOISERIE Our Sir William Chambers, Chippendale, and their school hadno monopoly or precedence in their fondness for the Chinese style;for—half a century earlier—in the days of Louis xiv. we find the loveof la chinoiserie expressing itself in…

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