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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 430

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nd in semi-armour,Roman toga, and full-bottomed wig—a sufficiently incongruous blendof costume to have served for Julius Caesar, Antony, or Coriolanus, inan eighteenth-century British rendering of the Shakespearean drama. The Galerie dApollon, of which the dado panelling isrepresented in our plate,… … I THE LOUIS XIV. PERIOD 323 given to beds. Usually they were named after the subjects repre-sented upon the draperies, when these were of a pictorial nature, orfrom their colour when plain.

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