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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 320

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commodes, and an armoire decorated in porcelain, with seascapes andflowers, upon a green ground. QUEEN MARIE ANTOINETTE It is a romantic fiction to attribute to Queen Marie Antoinetteany great share in the genesis of the style—since she found it wellestablished upon her arrival in France. It would… … DESIGN FOR FRIEZE BY DE LA FOSSE. If it be permissible to see miiTored in the Rococo-rocaille styleof Louis XV. — sensuous and unbridled by considerations of cost, orof constructive propriety — a reflex of the habits of thought of the 2:iH df.corattvf: i urxitt hi:

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