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from the brain of Jupiter to that when she brought Perseus, slayer of the Gorgon, mounted 011 Pegasus, back to Athens, thus symbolismg tf the discomfiture of the enemies, past and future, of the King, overwhelmed by his magnificence and by his success in every enterprise through following the counsels of his Minerva. This extravagant spirit was reflected n the domestic furniture of the home by the excess of ornamentation lavished upon it, such as volutes, flowers, and foliage, nymphs, dryads,...
Table Hugues Sambin
up a description that may serve to give some idea of the lavishness of Burgunuian ornament we may add that on the front, which is divided by columns, and along the top of the avmoire, eight mythological figures, representing Lucretia, Mercury, Flora, Ceres, Pan, Envy, Apollo, and Orpheus, are painted in cameo picked out with gold. As we have had occasion to refer to paintings on the work of Sarnbm, we must warn our readers that the ir npression produced at the present day by furniture of...
Table Hugues Sambin
come down to us, that of Etienne de l'Auln, who worked chiefly n the reign of Henri IV. but now and then part of some good design happened to fall into the hands of a clever artist with little imagination, who would simply content b'mself with reproducing it exactly on all the panels of some piece of furriture. This was the case with one of the best decorated armoiyes of the end of the sixteenth century which passed from the Sp'tzer to the Salting collection, and has on each of its...
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selves up to the manufacture of massive mahogany furniture, that Thom re decorated with slim antique gods and goddesses, or with palm- and laurel-leaves. The younger of the brothers retired in 1804, leaving Jacob Desmalter to inundate France and Europe with productions which, however perfect from a technical point of view, were altogether unpleasing and unsatisfactory as works of art. Nearly all the drawings for this furniture were supplied by the architect Percier and his inseparable...
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furnished, too, with all manner of costly things, such as were never seen before. Moreover, silver dishes are used by all classes to such an extent that t has been necessary to issue an order to check this superfluity' it was annulled two years later on account of its uselessness for there is a certain set of people who will not be content unless their cups, goblets, ewers, and spoons are of silver at least. What would the historian of Louis XIL have said if he could have seen what the luxury...
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I. The Gauls, the Gallo-Ro.mans and the II. The Fourteenth Century . . . .24 III. The Fifteenth Century 34 V. penri II. and the second half of the sixteenth Century 63 VI. The Seventeenth Century be tore the Accession of Louis XIV. . . . .82 VII. The Reign of Louis XIV. . . . 101 VIII. The Regency and Louis XV. . . . .126 IX. Louis XVI., the Revolution and the Empire . 143 Useful Bcoks of Reference . . . .167 Index . . . . . . . . 173 CUPBOARD, Sixteenth Century, School of Du Cerceau. Cluny...