Royal collections : Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace (1900)
[England? : s.n.] · leaf 110
he construction of new furniture, becausethey found that the previously popular imitationlacquer was not refined enough for their ormoulu.He became maitre ihiniste in 1766 and worked in apure Louis XVI manner. In his fondness for a profu-sion of ormoulu, especially on the upper frames of… … Q 252 THE MAGAZINE OF AET. Pompadour. After her death it was stripped of itsfurniture, and the two daughters of Louis XV,Victoire and Adelaide, lived there during the reignof their nephew Louis XVI. They were greatcollectors of lacquer and porcelain, and called inCarlin to construct their furniture…
