. This balustrade, of admirable design, was made at the20 306 ART AND CRITICISM. end of the eighteenth century, at prosaic Birmingham, in thedays when taste had not yet utterly abandoned that industri-ous town. The pillar from which the hand-rail starts is sur-mounted by two crowned female figures,… … ENTRANCE HALL. staircase, from the foot to the top of the house, is green. Thewhole is panelled in shades of willow. The dado of the darkershades is enriched with panels imitating aventurine lacquer,decorated with delicate sprigs of pale rose and white flowersin the Japanese taste. These panels are…
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