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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 335

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e garlands above and beneath it are of later date than the rest. Marqueterie reached a greatdegree of excellence during the last half of the i8th century, and such names as Riesener and DavidRoentgen are well-known. Riesener used tulip, rosewood, holly, maple, laburnum, purple wood, etc. Wreathsand… … David Roentgen made marqueterie in lighter woods and of rather a gayer tone than those ofRiesener. Both worked in plain mahogany, and trusted for their effectiveness to the gilt metal 327 Louis XV. COACH FURNITURE AND SLEDGES. Middle 18th Century

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