Styles of ornament, exhibited in designs, and arranged in historical order, with descriptive text. A handbook for architects, designers, painters, sculptors, wood-carvers, chasers, modellers, cabinet-makers and artistic locksmiths as well as also for technical schools, libraries and private study (1910)
Speltz, Alexander, O'Conor, David · New York : E. Weyhe · leaf 615
Bureau, made in Paris (Percier et Fontaine). 604 EMPIRE ORNAMENT IN FRANCE. Plate 386. … EMPIRE ORNAMENT IN FRANCE. 605 On the fall of the Empire, the same style continued but was much inferior both incharacter and execution. The neogrec movement of 1840—60 led to more refinement indesign, which after the Franco-German war tended towards a revival of the Louis XIV.and XV. Style. Plate…
Decoration and ornament
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