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 . ased and gilt. On page 135 are shown vases or flower pots ofsufficient size to take small orange trees, etc. These were sometimes of silver and placed in the largerapartments. Thus we read that there were some in silver, fashioned by the most skilful workmen, in thefamous glass gallery at Versailles, which vases Louis XIV., when pressed for money, ordered to be melteddown and made i
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 . ased and gilt. On page 135 are shown vases or flower pots ofsufficient size to take small orange trees, etc. These were sometimes of silver and placed in the largerapartments. Thus we read that there were some in silver, fashioned by the most skilful workmen, in thefamous glass gallery at Versailles, which vases Louis XIV., when pressed for money, ordered to be melteddown and made into coin. The tastes for these vases, urns, etc., was brought about by the fashion set byLouis XIV. and his court of having rare plants and flowers to decorate the interiors of their mansions and alsotheir gardens, the laying out of which at that time had developed into a tine art. Some of these garden vasesin stone or marble are of the highest form of art. On page 136 are some designs for cornice mouldings, will admit they are well designed, and we quickly recognise them as belonging to the reign ofLouis XIV There are mouldings of this class to be seen on the woodwork in the State apartments of. Design for Coach for William III. 140 Louis XI\ ANDRE CHARLES BOULE. Second Half 17th Century
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