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 53
53 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries painted plaques of porcelain took the place of these marbles. … In England, France, Spain, and Germany, the great houses, both private and religious, and the king’s palaces were elaborately furnished, and kept in a state of great splendor.
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