laim to decorative value with an insistencythat became abuse. It was a frivolous age of luxury and licentiousness, ofbuffoonery and a wanton artistic caprice, of the influence of concubines in highplaces, of La Pompadour and the (Ireat Trianon, of an elegant coquetry andovercharged fastidiousness… … FKi. 12. CAR\ED A .N D t;iLT LOLIS XV. .SEITEE, COVERED I .\- BEALVAIS TAIESf k^. introduced the richer and more distinctively French emplo)ment ot orientallacquer for a decorative surface, known by the name of vernis-Maiiiii; at theSevres porcelain works, founded by the King, exquisite vases of…
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