Royal collections : Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace (1900)
[England? : s.n.] · leaf 146
t thebranching curves and a stiffness and massivenessin the leafage which are not found in the moretortured age of Rococo. The Winter was repro-duced in our introduction. Spring representsFlora being crowned by Psyche with a garland offlowers. Summer shows, perhaps, Ceres witha sheaf of wheat upon… … of the various members of the Caffieri family as there wasat one time concerning the family of Boulle. The founderof the line was a Philippe Caffieri, born at Rome in L634.He was brought to France by Mazarin in 1660, and ofcourse went to the Gobelins under Le Brnn, one of whoserelations he married.…
