Don Mills, Ont. : Southam-MacLean Publications · leaf 182
plaster of paris and thengilt, or if not gilt, painted in white, pale green, deli-cate rose and the like, with gold trimmings. Manyexamples were in natural wood finished with thegreatest brilliancy. When finished in green after theVernis-Martin manner the embellishment was bypaintings of the… … Fig. 7. and her court were wont to retire to the little Triononand play at being villagers. At the dairy the queenherself perhaps made butter, while others played atherding cattle and sheep. The artists of the timetaking their cue from this circumstance devoted theirtalents to depicting scenes of…
Furniture industry and trade · Woodworking industries
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