The practical cabinet maker and furniture designer's assistant, with essays on history of furniture, taste in design, color and materials, with full explanation of the canons of good taste in furniture .. (1910)
Hodgson, Frederick Thomas, 1836-1919 · Chicago, F. J. Drake & Co · leaf 51
d most imposing articles of furniture ofthe fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. They were placedin the long halls and corridors of the palaces and great 50 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER houses, and were usually given as presents to newlymarried couples. They were generally used as the re-ceptacle for… … WFmwm Figure 32 with feet designed from the claws of animals to raisethem from the ground (Fig. 32). The carving wasrelieved by gilding in parts, and sometimes the wholeof it was gilt. Other examples of an earlier date were covered witha finely modelled decoration of gesso work, and gilded,and in…
Cabinetwork · Furniture making
Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
