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 142
1«1 T, ou is XIV. ARMCHAIR AND CARVINGS. Last Half 17th Century Those to take tapestries arefrom 12 feet to 21 feet ormore in length (see No. i,page189). They are composed ofa pair of strong cylindersof oak or deal, called lisses,placed horizontally in thesame vertical plane, andat some distance…
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