Suggestions in design : being a comprehensive series of original sketches in various styles of ornament : arranged for application in the decorative and constructive arts (1880)
Leighton, John, 1822-1912, Colling, James Kellaway · London : Blackie and Son · leaf 165
e worst features of this period, and cannot be too strongly con- demned. The sixteenth and early but after a time flowers and foliage, with part of the seventeenth century birds, insects, and other accompaniments, is generally speaking the finest Fig. 277. period of this style. Happily amid much… … for holding clothes or ornamental hangings or palaces, but the important mansions that when not in use. These chests, with a were erected at this time created a taste table and chairs placed against a wall, for a superior class of furniture, such as nearly complete the requirements of great carved…
Decoration and ornament
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