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  2. Louis XIV furniture - Wikipedia

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    Rooms were dominated by massive cabinets, decorated with columns, frontons, pilasters, balustrades, niches and other decoration which matched the elaborate carved wood paneling, called lambris, placed as squares or rectangles on the walls, and the sculpted ceilings with similar decorations. Cabinets, tables and chairs were geometric.

  3. Louis XVI furniture - Wikipedia

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    With the death of Louis XV on May 10, 1774, his grandson Louis XVI became King of France at age twenty. The new king had little interest in the arts, but his wife, Marie-Antoinette, and her brothers-in-law, the Comte de Provence (the future Louis XVIII) and the Comte d'Artois (the future Charles X), were deeply interested in the arts, gave their protection to artists, and ordered large amounts ...

  4. Louis XV furniture - Wikipedia

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    It was a small cabinet with a sloping front which opened out into a writing surface. It was also called en dos d'âne , or "style of donkey's back". Madame de Pompadour possessed one of these, made between 1748–52, with a varnish of red and a blue in the Chinese style, which combined rocaille and exoticism.

  5. Display case - Wikipedia

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    A display case (also called a showcase, display cabinet, shadow box, or vitrine) is a cabinet with one or often more transparent tempered glass (or plastic, normally acrylic for strength) surfaces, used to display objects for viewing. A display case may appear in an exhibition, museum, retail store, restaurant, or house. Often, labels are ...

  6. French furniture - Wikipedia

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    Secrétaire à abattant by Jean-François Leleu, Paris, ca 1770 (Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris). French furniture comprises both the most sophisticated furniture made in Paris for king and court, aristocrats and rich upper bourgeoisie, on the one hand, and French provincial furniture made in the provincial cities and towns many of which, like Lyon and Liège, retained cultural identities ...

  7. Coromandel lacquer - Wikipedia

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    Coromandel lacquer, probably originally from a screen, worked up into a cabinet for medals in France in the 1720s. Coromandel lacquer is a type of Chinese lacquerware, latterly mainly made for export, so called only in the West because it was shipped to European markets via the Coromandel coast of south-east India, where the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) and its rivals from a number of ...

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