The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour, & history (1911)
Foley, Edwin · New York, G.P. Putnam's sons · leaf 217
pear on some few pieces of early French Renaissance furniture,confirming the belief in the continuance of the mediaeval and ItalianRenaissance practice of painting,—the paint being removed by a latergeneration who appreciated their ancestors design-forms but wereunable to tolerate their childish… … The remains of paint or evidence of pickling off would, in hisopinion, be found in a far greater number of pieces had the custombeen invariable or even usual. One is, by custom, so habituated tothe mellow, sombre gradations of the natural woods that it would necessitate a reconstruction of the…
Furniture · Decoration and ornament
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