chinoiserie

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• First, the house's painted Chinoiserie wallpaper suggested a palette for the scagliola: soft shades of terracotta, green, buff, lilac and dusty blue.
• The introduction of a British ship into a chinoiserie scene is highly unusual and vividly illustrates Liverpool's early interest in world trade.
• Gazing at their done-over barns and railroad apartments in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, one gets the definite sense that their "undecorated" spaces are a bit more decorated than our own undecorated spaces, and one secretly suspects that one's own life may not yield up the time to stumble across handpainted Chinoiserie wallpaper by the storied French firm de Gournay or antique Etruscan pottery brought back from a trip to Beirut. The Rise of the Personal
• La Maison's range of originals spans the 18th and 19th centuries, with gilded-cherub motifs, lacquered black chinoiserie and caned beds.
• The most usual decorative themes in penwork are neoclassicism, chinoiserie, and floral subjects.
• In the first quarter of the century chinoiserie was a popular style, exemplified by the pearl and diamond pagoda-shaped earrings of the 1820s shown in Plates IIIa and IIIb.
• The Beauforts brought their boundless enthusiasm for chinoiserie to Badminton, and in so doing created two of the most remarkable rooms in England.
• Gift-shop ceramic chinoiseries are mounted on some canvases.
• First, the house's painted Chinoiserie wallpaper suggested a palette for the scagliola: soft shades of terracotta, green, buff, lilac and dusty blue.
• A later Walter Moorcroft vase reached £780 and a 19th century potichomania glass vase and cover printed with chinoiserie sold well at £500.