Royal collections : Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace (1900)
[England? : s.n.] · leaf 204
, some-thing more sugges-tive of lifes fri-volities, suited thetaste of the periodof Louis XV. TheThree Fates ofBoulle have givenway now to theThree Graces ofFalconnet. WithLouis XVI, how-ever, and theEmpire we return to graver themes. Classical decorum and a con-siderable amount of repose, at any… … WHITE MARBLE CLOCK WITH THREEBtj Lipinc. worthy of Lepine, itsabout 1770. Two clocks of veryidentical white marblrather fretful eagles,pieces has on each sid mounted withormoulu in thedelicate style of(■uiith iere. Per-haps a carpingcritic might objectthai i lie darkness<>r the bronzefigures…
