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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)

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Louis XIV. 87 JEAN LE PAUTRE. Last Half 17th Century. … Design for Chimneypiece, etc. of what constitutesBoule work—insteadof under the name ofBoule. Boule itself is apeculiar kind of inlaidor veneered work com-posed of tortoiseshelland thin brass, to whichother metals, enamel,and ivory are sometimesadded. Even in the firstworks of Andre CharlesBoule…

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