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 260
Design by Boucher for Heading of one of M. Pattes Books. … mounts. Roentgen used pear, lime,and light coloured woods, occasionallytinted by burning, which is done eitherby hot irons or by hot sand, the latterbeing the best. Only dark yellowsand browns are obtained by thisprocess. Other tints, like greens andblues, are obtained by steeping thewood in…
Decoration and ornament · Furniture · Interior decoration
Internet Archive · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.