Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 288
hich art had beenimported from Persia and India by the Venetians, andwhich spread rapidly through Europe until the furnituremade with marquetry de-coration by degrees sujd-planted the heavier clas-sical architectural designs. This was brought aboutchiefly in the West ofEurope by the Dutch andFrench… … Fig. 241.—The (iiciit Ben oiElizabethan. (P.) uc; In this century Venice wasrenowned for the making of glass, for which it is stillfamous, and certain privileges were granted by the Stateexclusively to Venetian manufacturers of looking-glasses.Two Murano glass makers named Andrea and Dominico,who…
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