Household elegancies : suggestions in household art and tasteful home decorations (1876)
Jones, C. S., Mrs, Williams, Henry T · New York : H. T. Williams · leaf 87
h-thick wood, andfrom edge to the bottom of the back which is cut as broad as the shelf at top,and running to a point, lay the stiffened muslin (described in making the Marble Bracket) in fluted folds, broad and deep at the top, and gatheredto a cluster at the bottom; paint all with the plaster of… … into the liquid plaster and dry.Cluster a bunch of grapes and twoleaves with a spray upon thelower point, and one likewise ateach corner, with a vine of smallones along the edge of the shelf;ornament the cross with a delicatevine. Should this work becomesoiled, a coat of the plaster willrestore it…
Decoration and ornament
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