This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...partly in relief. On the ends are painted flat designs in gold; these, like the doors and shelves, are outlined with a band of gold. A taining three drawers with an interrupted curved front, rests on legs derived from a Louis XIV. design, braced in the front with shaped stretchers while the upper section has an arched ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...partly in relief. On the ends are painted flat designs in gold; these, like the doors and shelves, are outlined with a band of gold. A taining three drawers with an interrupted curved front, rests on legs derived from a Louis XIV. design, braced in the front with shaped stretchers while the upper section has an arched and moulded top and double doors revealing shelved compartments. The body colour of the whole is a dark, rich bluegreen. On this are placed the medallion-like decorations composed of vases of well-painted flowers in naturalistic tones and gaily plumaged birds on a yellowcream ground. In the four corners of the doors similar birds are FIG. 221. WALNUT CHAIR. VENICE, ABOUT I740-5O FROM THE KUNSTGEWERBE MUSEuM, BERLIN repeated, while the decorative parts of the drawers crowning cornice, legs, and stretchers are composed of floral motifs harmonizing with those of the doors. Highly characteristic Venetian design and colouring is seen in the crudely constructed corner cabinet illustrated in Figure 168. These designs composed of flowers and rococo scrolls were a favourite and successful type of the Venetian school of decorative painters, at their best, between the years 1730-50. On square panels of old yellow ground is painted a rococo tion dating between the years 1710-30. The background colour is yellow, the decorations of the stiles are blue, while the shaped panels, framed with vigorous molds, are painted with rococo designs in green and little figures in tones of red and blue. Doors of this description played a prominent part in Venetian interiors. A valuable document of the eighteenth century relating to these and other painted features is given in the following description: "The palaces at Venice are much in the same taste; having seen o...
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