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Period furnishings; an encyclopedia of historic furniture, decorations and furnishings (1911)

Clifford, C. R. (Chandler Robbins), 1858-1935 · New York, Clifford & Lawton · leaf 174

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successful!)undertaken in bothcities. The a n t i q u i -ties brought to lightaroused great enthusi-asm a m o n g Frenchartists and in the latterhalf of the reign ofLouis XV this purelyclassic feeling, this res-toration of pure lines,Pompeiian lines, wasstrongly in evidence. In the closingyears of… … Costume and Furniture ot the l^iuus \VI period. early classic. It came back to the straight legs the early Louis XIV, but followed the models of architectural columns, rounded, but smaller at the base or foot instead ofsmaller at the top. Nolonger did they usecurved lines, the Sshapes or the…

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