ers.A reaction was inevitable: let us see how it cameabout. As everyone knows, this reaction was consider-ably anterior to the accession of Louis XVI, sothat the apogee of the Louis XVI style was reachedperhaps in the last years of the reign of Louis XV.Is not its most perfect expression in… … Cylinder-bureau with mother-of-pearl inlay, bearing themonogram of Marie Antoinette The property of Mr. E. M. Hodgkins Louis XV? Or perhaps to the taste of the Queen?I hardly think so: we must look outside the court.As Courajod very justly recognised some fortyyears ago, it was under the aegis of…
Furniture · Decoration and ornament
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