The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour, & history (1911)
Foley, Edwin · New York, G.P. Putnam's sons · leaf 417
l leafage. Trellis-work formed by bars usuallydiagonal and closely interlaced, the spacesbetween being filled with paterce, was also animportant element, whilst the royal cipher, thedouble L forming the central ornament upon aturquoise-blue ground, in Colour Plate No.XLI., was inset in a true oval… … DOOR PANEL. HOTEL MAZARIN.SURMOUNTED BY LIONS SKIN. LA GHINOISERIE Our Sir William Chambers, Chippendale, and their school hadno monopoly or precedence in their fondness for the Chinese style;for—half a century earlier—in the days of Louis xiv. we find the loveof la chinoiserie expressing itself in…
Furniture · Decoration and ornament
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