Royal collections : Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace (1900)
[England? : s.n.] · leaf 90
has quiet dark ground, and avoided very large masses been proved to last 150 years and more it preserved which might interfere with the ormoulu mounts, from damp—which is only a reasonable, precaution : The straggling foliage of the Louis XV Cameris that beautiful effects of opposition of grain are… … CABINET WITH PIETRA DURA INLAY AND EMPIRE MOUNTS. The strong colours of the wood interfere somewhatwith the effect of the elaborate mounts. We shallfind that the profuse Louis XV ormoulu looks beslupon a ground of dark lacquer. The process of veneering is much decried atpresent by a certain class…
