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Principles of decorative design (1873)

Dresser, Christopher · London : and New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter, & Galpin · leaf 97

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Fig. 58. Fig. 57. instances; but, perhaps, I had better give treatments for the entire room, includingthe ceiling, and not for the wall simply. A good effect of a very plain and inexpensive character would be producedby having a black skirting, a cream-colour wall (this colour to be made of the … Fig. 59. colour called middle-chrome and white, and to resemble in depth the best purecream), a cornice coloured with pale blue of greyish tint, with deep blue, white,and a slight line of red, and a ceiling of blue of almost any depth. The ceilingcolour to be pure French ultramarine, or this…

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