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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 196

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a workman in the Gobelins manufactory, and that some familiesha\-e been employed for generations. This is why such high perfectionhas been attained in the manufacture of storied tapestries. Theprocess is so difficult that it sometimes takes a highly skilledworkman a year to produce three or four… … 188 Louis XIV. CARVING AND FIREDOG. Last Half 17th Century.

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