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Title: Candelabrum from 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
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Strange, Thomas Arthur
Subjects: Decoration and ornament Furniture Interior decoration
Publisher: London : McCorquodale, New York, Scribner
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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years. In some of these designsthere is an optical delusion gainedby false shading, imitating reliefs.The plaster work is set off withan enormous amount of gilding,and the subjects of the paintings,etc., if not treating of Romanor semi-Roman mythology, wereof a warlike semi-heroic character.Such a one is to be seen in thecentre compartment of the Galeriedes Glaces at Versailles called Louis XIV. Governing byHimself. On page 138 will be founddesigns for watch cases, etc.These patterns are suitable forenamelling or for niello work, akind of black enamel. Theycould be simply engraved andtreated as watches are now in Louis XIV. ANDRE CHARLES BOULE. Second I Ia.II i ;th Century
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bronzes, carvedand gilt. Theconsoles andfestoons ondoorposts arein projection ;the grotesquehead is crown-ed with roses,vases withflames issuingforth are on thecornices, andthe figure ofFame is on thetop of dome.The centremonumentalclock is de-corated withmarqueterie ofmetal on tortoiseshell. The mounts and ornamentsare of gilt bronze cast and chased. Themain motive of the clock is Love andTime. On page 141 is a boule cabinet withshaped sides and marble top and very finebrass mounts ; the other is from the Louvre,and has metal on tortoiseshell. Thebarometer and thermometer has the boulemarqueterie of brass and metal on a groundof red tortoiseshell with gilt bronzes. Thereis a statuette of a child in the Chinese styleon top of the frame, and a grotesque headblowing. On page 142 are some designs of whatthe French call Girandoles, which arecandle stands to hold several lights. Thosehanging from the ceiling are called Lustres.There are also some called Bras Applique,Bras de Cheminee—bra

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