The Talbot J. Taylor collection : furniture, wood-carving, and other branches of the decorative arts (1906)
New York : G.P. Putnam · leaf 53
there has been no modern attempt to supply the missing figure. As we all know, the real enthusiast for wood-carving insists that the restoration of a broken statue ruins its value, and that it is far more in- teresting to possess a piece lacking head, arms or legs, than to have these members… … COLUMN IN POLYCHROME FIQ- 27— SIDE CHAIR OF THE LOUIS XIII PERIOD teenth-ceiitury carving, a Ste. Veronica — a crude and primitive production in which the form is defined by a few lines that just serve to detach the figure from the wooden block out of which it is cut. Figure 37 is a caryatid, and…
Taylor, Talbot James, 1865 · Decorative arts
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