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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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at this piece, though it is in the latestLouis-Quatorze or Regence Style, must have been made during thelatter half of the XVIII Century. The chief plaque of marqueterie,with Hunting Scenes, (forming the top of the table) is probably of theearlier time. (See the casket No. 13 in Gallery XVIII.) 41. Marriage Casket (Coffret de Mariage), of ebony, on its base of the same material. The decoration of both is in marqueterie of metal on tortoise-shell, in the Style of the BoulleAtelier. The mounts are of bronze, cast, chased, and gilt. The vase at thefoot may be a later addition. Apparently made for the marriage of a Prince of the House ofFrance. French. Late Style and Period of Louis Quatorze. Beginningof the XVIII Century. 42. The companion BXarriag-e Casket to No. 41. 43. Vase and Cover of bleu-du-roi Sevres porcelain, ornamented with flutings and gilt garlands in relief, and mounted in giltbronze.Made in the last years of Louis Quinze, in the so-called Louis-SeizeStyle. 44. Gallery XXI.
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Console of boulle in the Louis Quatorze Style. Plate 64. Page 261, GALLERY XXI. 261 44. Console of ebony, decorated throughout with marqueterie ofmetal on tortoise-shell. The fanciful arabesque decoration of the top plaque, consisting ofa Singerie (or monkeys at play) is in the manner of Berain. The mounts include lions heads, the mask of a faun, and ornamentsof bronze, cast, chased, and gilt—all of exceptional beauty, both asregards boldness of relief, general completeness of modelling, andfinish. The top plaque may possibly be of the Louis-Quatorze period, butthe rest, though entirely in the style of the Boulle atelier, is of laterdate, and made by a skilful imitator working in the Louis-Seizeperiod. French. Second Half of XVIII Century. (See Plate No. 64.) 262 GALLERY XXII. GALLERY XXZZ. BRONZES, FURNITURE, and SEVRESPORCELAIN. 1—4. Set of four Wall Xiig-hts (Bras de Lumiere) of threelights each, in bronze, cast, elaborately chased, and gilt.These spring from sections of vases,

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