Designs for carving and gilding, used as interior decoration and furniture : with original patterns for dressing glasses, in a variety of styles, including that of Louis XIV, which being at present highly fashionable, is displayed in many examples
A London pattern book of 1836 by Thomas King, a furniture pattern designer, published by J. Weale with agents in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dublin, for carvers, gilders and cabinet makers working in interior decoration. Its plates show empty ornamental frames and mirror surrounds in rococo and Louis XIV styles, drawn in fine line with scrolls, shells, foliage and garlands. A designer could take from them the scrolling cartouche crests and the tapering side profiles that suit a carved mirror or border.
