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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 121

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 121
of the paintings,etc., if not treating of Romanor semi-Roman mythology, wereof a warlike semi-heroic character.Such a one is to be seen in thecentre compartment of the Galeriedes Glaces at Versailles called Louis XIV. Governing byHimself. On page 138 will be founddesigns for watch cases, etc.These… … bronzes, carvedand gilt. Theconsoles andfestoons ondoorposts arein projection ;the grotesquehead is crown-ed with roses,vases withflames issuingforth are on thecornices, andthe figure ofFame is on thetop of dome.The centremonumentalclock is de-corated withmarqueterie ofmetal on tortoiseshell. The…

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