Royal collections : Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace (1900)
[England? : s.n.] · leaf 31
he question which the fur-niture makers of the periodof Louis XIV. seem to have consciously or uncon-sciously asked, and definitely answered for them-selves at last in the most unmistakable manner.But there were gradual steps in the process, andperhaps history will be found to have had somethingto… … BOULE CLOCK. as well as ebony and other foreign woods. By 1665the Dutch were so powerful that they were ableto sail into the Medway and burn some Englishships at anchor there. Their merchant fleets hadbrought back specimens notonly of the woods but of thebirds and flowers of the tropics.So far back…
