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 97
rilliant andlustrous effect producedupon the polished met-al ; whilst the minglingof silver, brass, tortoise-shell, ivory, and enamel,supplies additional andbeautiful tones ofcolour. In the earlierfurniture made byBoulethe inlay was producedat great cost, owing tothe waste of material incutting;… … Uesio-n for Frieze. Louis XIV. PIERRE LE PAUTRE. Last Half 17th Centu ry-
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