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 309
antiqueheads of helmetedwarriors arrangedlike a cameo med-allion, mouldingsrepresenting antique Roman faceswith an axe in thecentre ; trophies oflances, surmountedby a Phrygian capof Liberty. Vasesfound in tombswere placed inrecesses imitatingthe ancient colum-baria, or receptacleof the cinerary… … 392 Empire Style. PERCIER AND- FONTAINE. Early 19th Century
Decoration and ornament · Furniture · Interior decoration
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