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Title: Catalogue of the furniture, marbles, bronzes, clocks, candelabra, majolica, porcelain, glass, jewelery, goldsmith's and silversmith's work, ivories, medals, illuminations, miniatures, and objects of art generally, in the Wallace collection
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Wallace Collection (London, England)
Subjects: Art Art objects
Publisher: London, Printed for H. M. Stationery Off
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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iod of manufacture. The decoration consists of gold birds on a ground of white, framedin gold borders of flowers and leaves, of the rocaille type.No Date Letter. Probably 1753.Earlier Style and Period of Louis Quinze. 35. Tea Pot of gros-bleu Sevres porcelain of the Yincennes period of manufacture, enriched with a decoration of gold birds ona white ground, framed in gold scroll-work of the rocailletype. Date Letter for 1753, the first year of dating the Yincennes (after-wards Sevres) porcelain by successive letters of the alphabet. Earlier Style and Period of Louis Quinze. This teapot, the cap and saucer No. 33, and the Sugar Basin andCover No. 34 form part of a Solitaire or Small Breakfast Service. 36. Cup and Saucer of bleu-du-roi Sevres porcelain, enriched with gilding and decorated with cartels, of which the principalone shows Children Playing with a Lamb. The cartels painted by Asselin ; the gilding by Le G-uay. No Date Letter. Style and Period of Louis Seize. 4. Gallery XVIIL ~l
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Upright Secretaire with mounts of gilt bronze, by RlESENER,.Plate 50. Page 221. GALLERY XVIII, 221 GALLERY XVZZZ. BRONZES, CLOCKS, and FURNITURE. 1. Candelabrum of blue-black enamelled metal and gilt bronze, cast and chased. The decoration consists of Sphinxes heads, garlands of flowers,and festoons of vine. The modelling is ascribed to Boizot and the execution to Thomire.French. Style and Period of Louis Seize. 2. The companion Candelabrum to No. 1. 3. Clock showing the Celestial Globe, with an Allegory of Time bound in chains of flowers by two Loves, while a third pointswith his arrow to the fleeting hour. The globe is of blue-black enamelled metal ; the Time of darkbronze ; the rest of gilt bronze, cast and chased. The modelling of the figures has been ascribed to Boizot.French. Style and Period of Louis Seize. 4. Upright Secretaire in marqueterie of various natural and stained woods. The mounts and ornaments are of bronze, cast, chased, and gilt; theyare probably invented by Duple

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