Handbook of the Jones collection in the South Kensington museum |
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artists AUTOTYPE beautiful belonged bought boule cabinet candelabra candlesticks casket Charles Cheapside Chelsea vases chimney-piece china clock cloth colour commode copy cups and saucers dark blue decorated drawing-room enamel Engravings Etchings étui examples Extra fcap fcap figures flowers French furniture galleries Gouthière gros bleu groups Hamilton Palace Illustrations inches inlaid inscription Isaac Oliver ivory jardinières Jones bequest Jones collection kind lac panels lacquer lapis-lazuli Limoges LONDON Lorenzo dei Medici Louis the fourteenth manufacture Marble statuettes Marie Antoinette marqueterie medallions metal miniatures nearly objects ormoulu mounts ornament Oxford painted pair pedestals Petitot Piccadilly pieces of furniture plate portrait Price princess de Lamballe PROWSE purchased queen Riesener scarcely secretaire Sèvres plaques Sèvres porcelain Sèvres vases silver gilt Sir Richard Wallace snuff-boxes sold South Kensington Museum specimens stood style tankard tazza thousand pounds turquoise wood workmanship
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Page 2 - ... cabinets, tables, commodes, chairs, or other valuable furniture in Sevres, boule, marqueterie, lac, oak, ebony, or ivory, I may be possessed of, in this my will or any codicil thereto, to the trustees for the time being of the South Kensington Museum for the benefit of the nation, to be kept separate as one collection and not distributed over various parts of the said Museum, or lent for exhibition.
Page 100 - ... chalk in solution. The varnish is laid on with a flat brush, and the wood is then put in a room to be very slowly dried. From thence it passes into the hands of a workman who moistens and again polishes it, generally with a piece of extremely fine-grained soft clay slate. It then receives a second coat of lacquer, and when dry is once more polished. These operations are repeated until the surface becomes perfectly smooth and lustrous. There are never less than three coatings, and seldom more...