Royal collections : Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace (1900)
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lasts through the reign of LouisXIII. and part of that of Louis XIV., and then givesway to the simpler secretaire and table bureau with drawers only in the framework upon which the tableslab is placed. The slightly recessed centre drawerof many a fine Boule table is all that remains of thedeep… … FLORENTINE CASKET CONTAINING GENERAL GORDONS BIBLE. pletely at the beginning of the eighteenth century.It is a difficult question to answer, but certain con-siderations may explain to us why, if the Frenchnation has not been really pre-eminent in painting,it certainly took for a whole century and…
