2-755-763 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Plaster ornaments, France, 17th and 18th centuries, (1898). 'Fig 1: Panel decorations at door and window niches in the throne room of the Castle at Fontainebleau, style of Louis XIV [c1643-1715]. Fig 2: Projecting plane pattern in the panels of door and window niches in the queen's bed-chamber in the same Castle, style of Louis XIV. Fig 3: Wood carving from a wainscot in the Chateau de Bercy, style of Louis XIV. Fig 4: Capital of a mirror in the state-room of the Hotel de Lauzun at Paris, style of Louis XIV. Fig 5: Capital designed by the German Master Paul Decker, style of Louis XIV. Fig 6: Capital in the Salle des Medallions of the Palace of Versailles, style of Louis XV [c1715-1774]. Fig 7: Corner of a mirror frame in the queen's bed chamber at Versailles, style of Louis XV). Fig 8: Piece of architecture in the style of Louis XV. (After A. Rosis, 1753). Plate 82 from "The Historic Styles of Ornament" translated from the German of H. Dolmetsch. [B.T. Batford, London, 1898]