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 . years. In some of these designsthere is an optical delusion gainedby false shading, imitating plaster work is set off withan enormous amount of gilding,and the subjects of the paintings,etc., if not treating of Romanor semi-Roman mythology, wereof a warlike semi-heroic a one is to be seen in thecentre compartment of the Galeriedes Glaces at Versailles call
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 . years. In some of these designsthere is an optical delusion gainedby false shading, imitating plaster work is set off withan enormous amount of gilding,and the subjects of the paintings,etc., if not treating of Romanor semi-Roman mythology, wereof a warlike semi-heroic a one is to be seen in thecentre compartment of the Galeriedes Glaces at Versailles called Louis XIV. Governing byHimself. On page 138 will be founddesigns for watch cases, patterns are suitable forenamelling or for niello work, akind of black enamel. Theycould be simply engraved andtreated as watches are now in Louis XIV. ANDRE CHARLES BOULE. Second I i ;th Century
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