Gay, Eben Howard, b. 1858 · New York, Longmans, Green, & Co. · leaf 146
r. Granted, Mr. Blake, that that class of furniture pos-sesses the highest decorative value, and that its flamboy-ant style ideally suited it to the gilded salons of Versailles,where it formed an appropriate back-ground for the silk-clad courtiers and powdered and patched grandes damesof the day, I… … TAPESTRIED CHAIR Chippendale style. The stiles, decorated above with acanthus andpendants of husks curve into the top-rail in the form of a volute, whichfeature is repeated at each end of a broad band of acanthus leaves midwaybetween, and still again where the splat joins the shoe of the seat.…
Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-1779 · Furniture -- Collectors and collecting
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