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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 (1900)

Strange, Thomas Arthur · London : McCorquodale, New York, Scribner · leaf 11

An illustration from 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, 1900, leaf 11 — otheque National. Hewas the inventor of Mansart roofs. The oldest partsof Paris were built during this period, and from whichalso date the older private mansions, their peculiaritybeing that the fronts rise from enclosed courts, enteredfrom very handsome gateways having the escutcheonover the… … The cabinets on page 4 were madein oak, sometimes in ebony and other^woods, and had inlays of bone, ivory,mother-of-pearl, etc. The influencesseem to have been German or Flemish.Abraham Bosse was born at Tours in1611 and died in 1678. He was apainter, architect, engraver, and etcher.At the…

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