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 . wer of mahogany. The mounts are oformolu. On the top is a slab of variegated vellow marble. It is stamped , and is in the style ofthe period of Louis XVL Modern French. It is in the Victoria and Albert Museum. On the same page isillustrated a music-stand or reading table in marqueterie, with rising top inlaid with a Sevres plaque which 151 Louis XVI. CABINET AND MUSIC STAND. L
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 . wer of mahogany. The mounts are oformolu. On the top is a slab of variegated vellow marble. It is stamped , and is in the style ofthe period of Louis XVL Modern French. It is in the Victoria and Albert Museum. On the same page isillustrated a music-stand or reading table in marqueterie, with rising top inlaid with a Sevres plaque which 151 Louis XVI. CABINET AND MUSIC STAND. Last Half 18th Century. has the date letter for 1778. ft is on a tripodstand, with mountings of chased ormolu. Ithas a drawer fitted for writing music stand is stamped M. Carlin, andformerly belonged to Queen Marie-Antoinette,by whom it was given, in 1786, to Mrs. Eden,afterwards Lady Auckland. On top of page 352 is shown a table insatin-wood and purple-wood, with mounts andornaments of gilt bronze, cast and chased, themain feature of the decoration being richdetached festoons of oak leaves and acorns, ofthe style and period of Louis Seize. On thistable in the_centre is a turret-shaped clock of.
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