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ancient anthemion artists Aubusson Axminster beauty became bedstead bench bronze brought cabinet carpet carved century chair charm chests china Chinese chintz Classic cloth color comfort covered credence curtains curves cushions dark decoration delicate dining-room drapery drawing-room Eastlake ebony effect Elizabethan exquisite fancy fashion Flemish floor flowers forms frames French furnishing furniture gilding gilt glass Gobelin gold grace Greek guests hall hanging hung idea imitation inlaid Italian Jacobean Japanese lapis lazuli light lines Louis Quatorze Louis Quinze Louis Seize Louis XIII lovely luxury marquetry mediæval mirrors Modern Gothic ornament painted panels paper picturesque pieces Pompeian quaint Queen Anne Queen Anne style reign Renaissance rich Rococo Roman Saracenic screens scrolls seats shades shape shelves sideboard silk silver sometimes sort splendor stuffs style tapestry taste thing tints tion to-day usually vases Venetian wall whole wood
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Page 59 - Went to visit our good neighbour, Mr. Bohun,* whose whole house is a cabinet of all elegancies, especially Indian; in the hall are contrivances of Japan screens, instead of wainscot; and there is an excellent pendule clock enclosed in the curious flower-work of Mr.
Page 227 - There are no inclinations in women which more surprise me, than their passions for chalk and china. The first of these maladies wears out in a little time; but when a woman is visited with the second, it generally takes possession of her for life. China vessels are playthings for women of all ages. An old lady of fourscore shall be as busy in cleaning an Indian Mandarin, as her great-grand-daughter is in dressing her baby.
Page 45 - The embroidered couches, themselves striking objects, allowed the ease of position at once delightful in the relaxing climates of the south, and capable of combining with every grace of the human figure. At a slight distance, the table loaded with plate glittering under a profusion of...
Page 159 - In a few years almost every great house in the kingdom contained a museum of these grotesque baubles. Even statesmen and generals were not ashamed to be renowned as judges of teapots and dragons ; and satirists long continued to repeat that a fine lady valued her mottled green pottery quite as much as she valued her monkey, and much more than she valued her husband.* But the new palace was embellished with works of art of a very different kind.
Page 159 - Mary had acquired at the Hague a taste for the porcelain of China, and amused herself by forming at Hampton a vast collection of hideous images, and of vases on which houses, trees, bridges, and mandarins were depicted in outrageous defiance of all the laws of perspective. The fashion, a frivolous and inelegant fashion it must be owned, which was thus set by the amiable Queen, spread fast and wide. In a few years almost every great house in the kingdom contained a museum of these grotesque baubles.
Page 43 - ... other in a manner very pleasing to the eye, and the whole group was placed in a striking attitude. This figure was surrounded by a variety of fishes of different species, and other sea animals. The undulation of the water was properly exhibited, and likewise enamelled with its true colours. The earth I represented by a beautiful female figure holding a cornucopia in her hand, entirely naked, like the...