Period furnishings; an encyclopedia of historic furniture, decorations and furnishings (1911)
Clifford, C. R. (Chandler Robbins), 1858-1935 · New York, Clifford & Lawton · leaf 263
h and Eng-lish went in for this style dur-ing the latter part of the Nine-teenth Century. After the Revolution manytypes of painted furniture werebrought to America, not only fromEngland, but from the South ofFrance. They were frequentlycalled japanned work, but theterm is a misnomer, for the… … The Dtitch about 1750 took up the fashion forpainting furniture, much after the style of Vernis-Martin, painted under lacquer, not unlike the work ofcarriage panels. All sorts of subjects were followed,from flowers to ship scenes, a type familiar even tothose of the present generation is the work…
Interior decoration · Furniture · Decoration and ornament
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