Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 337
Fig. 18T.—Ceiling-Cove, Versailles. A HISTORY OF ORNAMENT Both on lacquered furniture and on tapestry andneedlepoint upholsterings and draperies these chinois-eries and singeries competed with the pastorals andaffected rusticalities of the Watteau school for aristo-cratic favor, and were even… … Fig. 188.—Commode by Caffieri. In the design and making of furniture, apart fromthis superficial decoration, the dominant name is thatof Cressent,^ an artist of inherited gifts, the son of asculptor and himself primarily a worker in bronze,noted for his exquisite figures of women placed at…
Decoration and ornament
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