The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history (1910)
Foley, Edwin · London : T.C. and E.C. Jack · leaf 352
Bureau-toilette, or Petit Secretaire, in marqueterie of variouswoods, is as unique and distinctive an example of the transit into theLouis Seize style as the bed is of its concluding phases. The mountsare probably by Duplessis, and the cabinet-work is attributed to JeanFran9ois Oeben. It certainly… … i\\ THE LOUIS XVL PElliOD 265 on the tragic anachronisms of a kingdom which, for more than acentury, produced the most luxuriously decorative furniture whilestarvation stalked through the land: which witnessed at itsbeginning men bowing servilely down before the table at whichtheir monarch ate and…
Furniture · Decoration and ornament
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