Monday, October 26th, 2009
Spain and Portugal
At the s.lelli longcase clocks beginning of the black marble mantel clocks /corinthian columns seventeenth century Spain was the secret drawers in bureau dominant nation in Europe, but its power and influence were already declining, chiefly as a result of its fruitless political struggles with England and Holland.
The enormous [...]
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
English Furniture
The Age of Walnut
The Restoration of Charles II to the secretary bookcase desk painted throne of England and Scotland in 1660 heralded a new age in Britain, which was to break away from the ebonized edwardian sideboard with queen anne legs mood of asceticism imposed under the chinese inspired sideboard [...]
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