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Title: An historical guide to French interiors, furniture, decoration, woodwork, & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Strange, Thomas Arthur
Subjects: Decoration and ornament Furniture Interior decoration
Publisher: London : McCorquodale, New York, Scribner
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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e 6 is a doorway with the arms of Louis XIII.,although the general style is that of Louis XIV. This room is called the Salle du Trone, and it contains thethrone of Napoleon I. Illustrations of the Empire style will be found at the end of this book. The door in the grand vestibule at the Palais de Fontainebleau, illustrated on page 7, has the usualcartouches so representative of Louis XIII. style, and has also some other good details—for instance, thecrown of thorns on the cross in centre of door, which is a very happy idea. Some other carvings inthe Louis XIII. style can be seen in the chapel at Fontainebleau, especially the side screens. The friezeround the chapel is composed of swags of fruits and flowers with the addition of cartouches, all veryrepresentative of this style. In the fireplaces of Barbet I have not shown the firebacks usual atthis period. They generally bore coats - of - arms, ciphers, or emblems, and it is said that large The Toilet of Venus. (Continued on page 8.)
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