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 & co · leaf 62
his rooms in the Louvre in the year 1673. He hadpreviously executed some important work for the king,and was known as the ablest ebeniste at that time inParis. The origin of the Boulle marquetry can be traced tothe Indian, Persian, and Damascus encrusted inlaysin ivory, ebony, and metal, that found… … Figure 41 66 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER Charles V. of France (1380) mention is made of lec-terns and coffers of inlaid ivory or bone, in ebony,and similar works are mentioned in the inventories ofCharles VI. (1418), and of Anne of Brittany (1498).These are the earliest notices of marquetry…
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