The practical cabinet maker and furniture designer's assistant, with essays on history of furniture, taste in design, color and materials, with full explanation of the canons of good taste in furniture .. . Figure 73 It was literally mobbed as I tried to get a glimpse of itfor my note book, and the adjectives showered upon 1;by the upper ten were the most expressive I have everheard applied to furniture. It was oblong in shape, witha drawer fitted with inkstand, writing-slide, and shelfbeneath an oval medallion of a trophy, and flowers onthe top, and trophies with four medallions round the J 5
The practical cabinet maker and furniture designer's assistant, with essays on history of furniture, taste in design, color and materials, with full explanation of the canons of good taste in furniture .. . Figure 73 It was literally mobbed as I tried to get a glimpse of itfor my note book, and the adjectives showered upon 1;by the upper ten were the most expressive I have everheard applied to furniture. It was oblong in shape, witha drawer fitted with inkstand, writing-slide, and shelfbeneath an oval medallion of a trophy, and flowers onthe top, and trophies with four medallions round the J 52 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER sides. This was stamped J. Riesner, and branded un-derneath with cypher of Marie Antoinette and GardeMeuble de la Reine. This really beautiful article of fur-. Figure 74 niture was exhibited in 1862 at the South KensingtonLoan Exhibition. Three thousand guineas was the firstbid for it, but it soon ran up to 4,500 guineas, at whichprice some dispute arose as to whose bid it was. Thiswas settled by $25,000 being offered, and the biddingcontinued till the price reached $30,500, when, amidmuch applause, it became the property of Mr. Wer- THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 153
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