A guide to collectors : 3,500 illustrations : English furniture, decoration, woodwork & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth (1900)
Strange, Thomas Arthur · London : McCorquodale · leaf 249
R. and J. ADAM. SETTEES. ‘2:39 Period about 1780. … The Brothers Adam decorated the dining-room in large houses with stucco, and adorned them with statues in niches, and with paintings, that they might not retain the smell of the victuals, etc. The ornaments of the ceilings, side-walls, etc., were of stucco, and were picked out with different tints,…
Furniture · Decoration and ornament · Interior decoration
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