Old English furniture and its surroundings, from the restoration to the regency (1920)
Percival, MacIver · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 63
came intofashion as part of the drinking equipment. A Monteith is alarge round punch-bowl with a curious castellated rim roundthe top. The glasses were arranged in this so that the lipswere in the w^ater with which it was half filled. When it wasput on the table the rim was removed, and the… … THE RESTORATION the actual drawing and details of the floral repousse workare not so particularly good, but the disposition of light andshade and the curves of the rims are really excellent. Candlesticks were beginning to be made in silver invarious designs, a quite simple pillar fitted with a…
Furniture · Interior decoration
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