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Title: The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Eberlein, Harold Donaldson McClure, Abbot, 1879-
Subjects: Furniture
Publisher: Philadelphia, London, J.B. Lippincott Company
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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eriods, the one we most frequently hear ofis Rococo ornament, though its excess of sinuosity wasby no means of universal application to the exclusionof all else. Rococo Ornament. The word rococo comesfrom the French roc and coquille, which could beliterally translated into English by the expressionrock cockle and be very accurate. The term arosefrom the passion that existed during a portion of theLouis Quinze period for employing rocks and shellsalong with wisps of nondescript foliage carved with be-wildering scrolls in every conceivable place and in everyconceivable variety of shape, as the prevailing detailsof ornamentation. It was a formalised expression of aRenaissance conception of rusticity. Arcadian Properties. This happy phrase ofMr. Foleys denoted the miscellaneous collection ofwreaths, cupids, female busts, satyrs, fountains anddoves with which so much of the Louis Quatorze andLouis Quinze furniture was plentifully bedecked. Diaperwork was largely used to fill plain surfaces
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LOUIS QUATORZE AND LOUIS QUINZE 143 of panels and the like during a part of the Louis XIVperiod and was applied with excellent and varied deco-rative effect. Acanthus leaves, as they seem to have been innearly every age, were a decorative necessity and wereemployed for foliage effects. Fkuits and Flowers also formed important items inthe cataloguing of available motifs of embellishment. Pendent Husks and Ribbons likewise filled a usefulplace in the scheme of adornment, as did also, to someextent, trophies of various sorts, and musical instru-ments. STRUCTURE In the time of Louis XIV the royal workshops, aswe have said, were in the Louvre, and no pains werespared to turn out the best possible work. The joinerywas of a high degree of excellence, and we find thesame tradition prevailing in the succeeding period. MOUNTS In the furniture of these periods metal mounts wereused not merely for necessary purposes of utility suchas knobs, drawer pulls, hinges, key-plates, scutcheonsand the like

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