An historical guide to French interiors, furniture, decoration, woodwork & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth (1903)
Strange, Thomas Arthur · London, The author · leaf 118
No. 2. Xo. 3. xo. 4. Designs for Tripod, Wall Decoration, Chimneypiece, &c. Louis XIV. JEAN BERAIN. Last Half 17th Century and Early i8th Century. 109 skiMIMiiaMiitMiii … No. I. No. 2. three thicknesses of the different materials wereglued together and sawn through at one opera-tion. An equal number of figures and ofmatrices or hollow pieces exactly correspondingwere thus produced, and, by countercharging,two or more designs were obtained by the samesawing. These…
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