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 nearly twelve thousand makers (1922)
Britten, F. J. (Frederick James), 1843-1913, Britten, Annie · London : E. & F. N. Spon · leaf 446
. from the Italian Cartela, a bracket, seems, during the seventeenthcentury, to have been applied to any ornament, frame, or otherobject fixed against a wall or ceiling and having a shape more orless rotund or oval with elongated or pointed ends. The intensedesire for fresh forms in articles of…
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