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, Fred. T. (Frederick Thomas), 1836-1919 · Chicago : F.J. Drake · leaf 35
35 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER posed that in the original country , of porcelain a very usual ornament of dwellings consists in vases and jars of that material, of which the antiquity is valued above every other quality. This … Figure 18 often very egregiously taken in at Canton. The shapes of their tripods and other ancient vessels, real or imitated, are often fan¬ tastical, and not unlike similar vestiges in Europe. The furniture, such as tables, chairs, beds, and the chariots of the Byzantine period, was like the…
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