. International studio. his description in imageries, are the fertile ground which nourished the inventory of Cardinal de Mazarin (1653): the flowers of French artisanry. One can trace A cabinet of tortoise shell and ebony, faced with their influence in forms and enrichments alike, gilded copper on the sides, carried by four monsters be it the work of Boule, or the plans of the Italians, of copper, silver-gilt; the lour corners furnished Cucci and Caffieri, and the Lowlanders, Jaques with cantonnieres of copper, silver-gilt, pierced Zomer, Golle, and Alexandre Jean Oppei a jour, enriched with
. International studio. his description in imageries, are the fertile ground which nourished the inventory of Cardinal de Mazarin (1653): the flowers of French artisanry. One can trace A cabinet of tortoise shell and ebony, faced with their influence in forms and enrichments alike, gilded copper on the sides, carried by four monsters be it the work of Boule, or the plans of the Italians, of copper, silver-gilt; the lour corners furnished Cucci and Caffieri, and the Lowlanders, Jaques with cantonnieres of copper, silver-gilt, pierced Zomer, Golle, and Alexandre Jean Oppei a jour, enriched with leaves, masks, cartouches, immortalized in the interiors of \ er and animals in bas-relief, representing divers Their creations were acquired by fables from Ovids Metamorphoses; countersunk and financiers alike, who paid generous in cornices of tortoise shell. showed their appreciation in main graci< It reads like a pronunciamento of the king- Did not Roi Soldi himself write with hi 1922 two eigbty-Jive inceRnACionAL. the word Bon on themargin of the Due dAntinsreport? The second bureauol Boule, he writes, is as beautiful as the other,and it suits the room (at the Trianon) to per-fection. And does it not beguile the art lover toread in the letter of Madame, the DuchessedOrleans, mother of the Regent: MARQUETERIE COMMODE OF BOIS DE VIOLETTE WITH ROCAILLE MOUNTS IN EARLY STYLE POMPADOUR, BY I. P. LATZ nation can be measured bythe volume of space accordedto it in inventories, and bythe economic value it receives in dowries andbequests. Objects of such high estimation fol-lowed their owners to foreign countries, and itwas due to Louise de Keroualle and the Duchessede Mazarin that large orders for fine French The present my daughter has received from ebenisterie were given by the English court ofthe Duchesse de Berry is gallant indeed. She has Charles the Second. Thus the Merry Monarch given her a commode. A commode is a largetable with large drawers—with beautiful orna-ments.
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