. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . g over craftsmen fromVenice to Vauxhall, that they mightpractise and teach plate-glass makingand bevelling, mirrors, indeed, werehenceforth to be reckoned among thejoys—and sorrows—of daily life. Theestablishment of the Duke of Bucking-hams glass factory at Lambeth, in 1673, gave lovers of their ownlineaments the opportunity of viewing them in English-made mirrorsfor the first time. Wliereas before 1673 looking-glass is rarely tobe met with in inventories, ere the end ofCharles reign it was extensively used notonly as free
. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . g over craftsmen fromVenice to Vauxhall, that they mightpractise and teach plate-glass makingand bevelling, mirrors, indeed, werehenceforth to be reckoned among thejoys—and sorrows—of daily life. Theestablishment of the Duke of Bucking-hams glass factory at Lambeth, in 1673, gave lovers of their ownlineaments the opportunity of viewing them in English-made mirrorsfor the first time. Wliereas before 1673 looking-glass is rarely tobe met with in inventories, ere the end ofCharles reign it was extensively used notonly as free mirrors, but was inserted in thepanelling, at times with considerable ingenuity,as in the kings writing closet at HamptonCourt, the mirror of which reflects the entiresuite of the apartments. AVhat more striking instance couW be givenof the arbitrary and artificial character of styledivisions than this Stuart period? Not onlyare at least three essentially differing modescombined, but varying local acceptances of theswiftly moving changes add to the would-be. dogmatists dilemma. READING DESK OW SCREW PILLAR. ROYAL SCOTTISH MUSEUM,EDINBURGH. One leaves the period with regret for spaceexigencies, and humility for incapacity to further concentrate itsmany phases more adequately. He must indeed be impregnably clad 31 238 DECORATIAE FURNITURE
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