Fine French Furniture With A Small Group Of English Pieces

Author : American Art Association
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528506250
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book French XVIII Century Furniture, Including Important Pieces in Needlepoint written by American Art Association and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-29 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from French XVIII Century Furniture, Including Important Pieces in Needlepoint: French Engravings, Drawings, Paintings, Including Lawrence's Notable Painting of the Young Duc De Bordeaux; Choice Oriental Rugs, a Mortlake Tapestry, French Decorated Tole and Lacquer Objects In addition to the foregoing, the collection contains a small group of Oriental rugs of exceptional quality, including two Royal Persian animal rugs [numbers 271 and of sixteenth century design and showing superb knotting. The Mortlake tapestry [number illustrating the meeting of Antony and Cleopatra, is a fine example of English tapestry weaving. Finally, among the complementary small objects is an extensive assortment of tole and lacquer articles of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, of a quality and variety rarely encountered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.