Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 301
uite likely that this was as near as possible a successfulimitation of the Japanese gold lacquer that decorated thearticles which were at this period imported from Japan bythe Dutch and Portuguese traders into Europe. Carriages,tables, cabinets, and especially smaller articles like snuff-boxes and… … ir. o 1—1 C5 H-1 oU furniture with plaques of Japanese lacquer, and to mountthem in chased metal or ormoulu decorations. A uniquecommode is illustrated at Fig. 248, made from panels of FURNITURE. 283 very old Japanese lacquer and highly decorated withormoulu mounts by Caffieri, a skilled chaser of…
Decoration and ornament -- History · Architecture -- History
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