The Talbot J. Taylor collection : furniture, wood-carving, and other branches of the decorative arts (1906)
New York : G.P. Putnam · leaf 79
^be Talbot 3. ^aplor Collection 59 — the high backs and seats upholstered. The word chaise as a diminutive oichaire found its way into the French vocabulary to denote a less throne-like seat than that of the type which had been in use up to this time. The hergere in Figure 57 is of the Louis XIV.… … PRAYER-BOOK OF HENRIETTE, DUCHESSE D’ ORLEANS, SISTER OF CHARLES II of the backs of the chairs in Figure s8. That on the left was made for an older person who must necessarily sit upright and have the back supported, while the back of the chair on the right slants perceptibly so as to allow the…
Taylor, Talbot James, 1865 · Decorative arts
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