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The Decorator's assistant (1847)

[London : W. Gibbs] · leaf 836

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THE DECOEATOR S ASSISTANT 165 an SllustratftJ csiosgatj) of ^tt^nital Kttms xisetj in .trc^itfctural mti Interior Becoration, ^c. Tailloir. a French name for the Abacus. Talon. A French term for the same mouldingwhich we call the ogee. Tazza. A cup or rase, used principally in … garden decorations. Tesselated Pavement. A pavement of mo-saic work used by the ancients, made of squarepieces of stone, &c., called teserse. The Romansdelighted in this kind of ornamental floor, whichsucceeded, as Pliny tells us, to the old painted

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