An historical guide to French interiors, furniture, decoration, woodwork, & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth . Buckingham Palace. The collectionof French snuff-boxes of the 18thcentury is also exceptional. The minia-tures comprise some examples by themost renowned artists of the Englishand foreign schools. The sculpture in-cludes, besides bronzes of the 16th and17th centuries, works of the 17th and18th centuries by Warin, Coysevox,Girardon, Bouchardon, Falconet,Houdon, and others. The exampl

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An historical guide to French interiors, furniture, decoration, woodwork, & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth . Buckingham Palace. The collectionof French snuff-boxes of the 18thcentury is also exceptional. The minia-tures comprise some examples by themost renowned artists of the Englishand foreign schools. The sculpture in-cludes, besides bronzes of the 16th and17th centuries, works of the 17th and18th centuries by Warin, Coysevox,Girardon, Bouchardon, Falconet,Houdon, and others. The examplesof French furniture of all kinds, ofclocks, garnitures, candelabra, candle-sticks, bronzes, and ornamental objectsof the 17th and 18th centuries standalone. No single collection in Franceor England, whether public or private,affords such opportunity for the studyof this branch of decorative art. 179 Louis XIV. LEGS OF CONSOLE TABLES, ETC. Last Half 17th Century.

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