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 149
a workman in the Gobelins manufactory, and that some familieshave been employed for generations. This is why such high perfectionhas been attained in the manufacture of storied tapestries. Theprocess is so difficult that it sometimes takes a highly skilledworkman a year to produce three or four… … 188Louis XIV. CARVING AND FIREDOG. Last Half 17th Century,
Decoration and ornament · Furniture · Interior decoration
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