Royal collections : Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace (1900)
[England? : s.n.] · leaf 217
of furniture. That was a combinationwhich no true colourist could have tolerated fora moment. It was an evil inspiration of somecabinet-makers—men say it was a descendant ofBoulle—suggested, perhaps, by the Italian prac-tice of pietra dura work. That may and doeslook passably well in churches,… … CABINET OF IVORY AND PIETRA DURA IN RELIEF. THE QUEENS TREASURES OF ART. 489 ebony or the white of ivory, the effect, enhancedby gilt mounts, is at least grandiose. When wecome to those fruit assortments of coloured stonesin relief it must be confessed that belief in thetaste of ones forefathers…
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