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 317
Design for Ceilino-- CUVILLES. … Middle i8th Century. work in most cases being-painted a liglit grey orother tint. Beecli was also ex-tensively used and birch waslargely used in chair making.Among other woods utilisedwere chestnut, which isoften mistaken for oak inold work, and is verydurable ; cherry, used forebonising; hornbeam,…
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