The practical cabinet maker and furniture designer's assistant, with essays on history of furniture, taste in design, color and materials, with full explanation of the canons of good taste in furniture .. . Plate IV*- THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 133 ivory to assist the design and give richness to the exe-cution. There are in the various museums many articles ofluxury and comfort taken from Egyptian tombs, whichdemonstrate the extraordinary state of civilization andculture attained by these ancient people, that aid us informing a picture of their domestic habits. Boxes,chests, tables and shelve
The practical cabinet maker and furniture designer's assistant, with essays on history of furniture, taste in design, color and materials, with full explanation of the canons of good taste in furniture .. . Plate IV*- THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 133 ivory to assist the design and give richness to the exe-cution. There are in the various museums many articles ofluxury and comfort taken from Egyptian tombs, whichdemonstrate the extraordinary state of civilization andculture attained by these ancient people, that aid us informing a picture of their domestic habits. Boxes,chests, tables and shelves in great variety have beenunearthed, some inlaid with various woods and withlittle squares of bright turquoise blue pottery let in as arelief; others veneered with ivory; wooden spoonscarved in most intricate designs, of which one, repre-senting a girl among lotus flowers, is a work of greatartistic skill; boats of wood, head-rests and carvedmodels of parts of houses and granaries, together withwriting materials, different kinds of tools and imple-ments and quantities of personal ornaments and requi-sites. Indeed the more we know of the Egyptians the morewre are led to believe that long before Gre
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