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Title: Catalogue of the furniture, marbles, bronzes, clocks, candelabra, majolica, porcelain, glass, jewelery, goldsmith's and silversmith's work, ivories, medals, illuminations, miniatures, and objects of art generally, in the Wallace collection
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Wallace Collection (London, England)
Subjects: Art Art objects
Publisher: London, Printed for H. M. Stationery Off
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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is Seize. 24. Round Table of dark mahogany, with mounts of gilt bronzeFramed in the top are seven round plaques of Sevres porcelain painted with Amorini and flowers. The M on the central plaque denotes that this table formedpart of the Mobilier of Queen Marie-Antoinette. French. Style and Period of Louis Seize. 25. Arm-Chair of wood, elaborately carved with garlands of flowers and foliage, and gilt.It is covered with white satin, embroidered by hand with a raiseddesign in coloured silks. French. Style and Period of Louis Seize. 26. Chimney Piece of white marble, with mounts of gilt and and dark bronze, cast and chased. The supports are terminal figures, in dark greenish bronze, of LoveGods, girt with festoons of ivy leaves and berries, and holdingfestoons of oak-leaves and acorns. In the centre is an eagle, in gilt bronze, with wings outstretched,grasping in its claws Joves thunderbolts. French. The Style is that of the very last years of the XVIII orthe very first of the XIX Century.
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