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 138
The Ceilings of Beds, made in Galon (a close lace of silk, gold or silver). Louis XIV. DANIEL MAROT. 129Second Half 17th Century. … :i Desicrns for Chantourne; m for Pilaster. Above are three designs for what the French call Chantourncs, the head pieces placed over the pillowsagainst the wall, some of which can be seen at Hampton Court Palace. Some further examples are given in theillustrations of bedsteads two pages further…
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