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 . bronze, cast and chased. The main motive of the clockis Love and Time. The manner is that of the Boule atelier, it issigned Thuret, and is of the style and period of Louis also may be seen a monumental pedestal of ebony, with marqueterie of metal on tortoiseshell and mountsof gilt bronze, cast and chased. The chief motives of the marqueterie are, in front, water-serpen
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 . bronze, cast and chased. The main motive of the clockis Love and Time. The manner is that of the Boule atelier, it issigned Thuret, and is of the style and period of Louis also may be seen a monumental pedestal of ebony, with marqueterie of metal on tortoiseshell and mountsof gilt bronze, cast and chased. The chief motives of the marqueterie are, in front, water-serpents intertwinedwith reeds, and, at the sides, lyres grouped with other musical instruments. It is of the same style and one side is a gueridon of ebony, with marqueterie of tortoiseshell on white metal and yellow metal, andmounts of gilt bronze, also of the same style and period. There is a companion gueridon on the other side. Onthese gueridons are placed two candlesticks {flambeaux) of gilt bronze, the stems formed by decorative figures, inthe one case of a woman and boy, in the other of a manand boy. These are late LouisOuatorze style and period. Louis XIV. SEBASTIAN LE CLERC. Late 17th
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