The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods (1914)
Eberlein, Harold Donaldson, McClure, Abbot, 1879- · Philadelphia, London, J.B. Lippincott Company · leaf 198
th be-wildering scrolls in every conceivable place and in everyconceivable variety of shape, as the prevailing detailsof ornamentation. It was a formalised expression of aRenaissance conception of rusticity. Arcadian Properties. This happy phrase ofMr. Foleys denoted the miscellaneous collection… … LOUIS QUATORZE AND LOUIS QUINZE 143 of panels and the like during a part of the Louis XIVperiod and was applied with excellent and varied deco-rative effect. Acanthus leaves, as they seem to have been innearly every age, were a decorative necessity and wereemployed for foliage effects. Fkuits and…
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