Household elegancies : suggestions in household art and tasteful home decorations (1876)
Jones, C. S., Mrs, Williams, Henry T · New York : H. T. Williams · leaf 92
around the shelf, hanging in long pendant loops and ends,with a tiny basket cut from a stone, as a finish on each. When such a shelf isformed of pine wood, it may be made really beautiful by covering every portionof it with the scales of pine cones ; forming a beading of small cones, halved,… … 90 HOUSEHOLD ELEGANCIES. upon it. The ordinary walnut clocks may be ornamented to correspond withthe shelf; and thus a plain, and perhaps, homely, piece of furniture may bechanged into one of great beauty. We have seen a clock of marble, upon ascallop-shell, with statuette of Venus upon the summit,…
Decoration and ornament
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