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  2. Chantilly porcelain - Wikipedia

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    Chantilly porcelain is French soft-paste porcelain produced between 1730 and 1800 by the manufactory of Chantilly in Oise, France. The wares are usually divided into three periods, 1730–1751, 1751–1760, and a gradual decline from 1760 to 1800. The factory made table and tea wares, small vases, and some figures, these all of Orientals.

  3. French furniture - Wikipedia

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    In the metropolitan culture of France, French furniture, connoting Parisian furniture, embodies one of the mainstreams of design in the decorative arts of Europe, extending its influence from Spain to Sweden and Russia, from the late seventeenth century to the last craft traditions in workshops like Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann, which came to an end only with the Second World War.

  4. French polish - Wikipedia

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    French polishing a table. French polishing is a wood finishing technique that results in a very high gloss surface, with a deep colour and chatoyancy.French polishing consists of applying many thin coats of shellac dissolved in denatured alcohol using a rubbing pad lubricated with one of a variety of oils.

  5. Furniture - Wikipedia

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    A popular furniture hardwood is American black cherry. Cherry is a light reddish brown to brown color that intensifies into a rich color as it ages, and grows mostly in the eastern United States. Cherry has a tighter grain than birch and is softer. Much cherry lumber is narrow, and it has been utilized to make many lovely classic furniture ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Édouard Detaille - Wikipedia

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    Meissonier became a major influence on his style, and it was he who inculcated an appreciation for accuracy and precision in Detaille. [ 2 ] Detaille made his debut as an artist at the Salon —the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts —of 1867 with a painting of Meissonier's studio. [ 2 ]

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