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 . Candelabrum Side of a Boudoir. Above is shown a side of the same boudoir, with a chimneypiece of grey marble, the jambs of which arecarved with muffled terminal figures by Claude Michel Clodion. Above is a lunette containing a figureof Pomona, painted by Jean Jacques Lagrenee. On either side is a pilaster painted with arabesques byJean Simeon Rousseau de la Rottiere, within carved a
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 . Candelabrum Side of a Boudoir. Above is shown a side of the same boudoir, with a chimneypiece of grey marble, the jambs of which arecarved with muffled terminal figures by Claude Michel Clodion. Above is a lunette containing a figureof Pomona, painted by Jean Jacques Lagrenee. On either side is a pilaster painted with arabesques byJean Simeon Rousseau de la Rottiere, within carved and gilt oak mouldings. Clodion was born in 1738 anddied in 1814. A candelabrum, one of a pair, for three lights, is also illustrated above. Two bronze draped femalessupporting an ormolu vase from which spring foliated brackets and spirals of ivy, on cylindrical stand ofmarble and chased ormolu. Probably by Pajou or Falconet. Height 3 ft. 7 in. 356 Louis XVI. PALAIS DE FONTAINEIAND PETIT TRIANOI lalf 18th Boudoir of Marie Antoinette.
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