Old clocks and watches & their makers, being an historical and descriptive account of the different styles of clocks and watches of the past, in England and abroad, to which is added a list of ten thousand makers (1904)
Britten, F. J. (Frederick James), 1843-1913 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 429
le thenprevailing as to regulation of trades by corporations or companies. 414 Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers. No better example of the Louis X\I. period could be selectedthan the chaste and elegant boudoir or ante-room clock shown inFig. 525. It is of white polished marble, w^hich age has… … Fig. 539. style is perhaps of a little later date, and well represents decorative artduring the last few years of the reign of that monarch. The beautifullymodelled cupids representing sculpture (adjacent to a completedbust of Henri IV. of Navarre), music, dancing (or singing), andpainting appear…
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