A Plea for Art in the House With Special Reference to the Economy of Collecting
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It is better to have your drawing-room cabinets too plain than too ornamental, unless the ornament is of the very best and highest character. And again, it is better to have one thing of first-rate quality, and everything else of the utmost plainness, than to have a mixture of styles and degrees, and to have one thing good, another poor, and a third, perhaps, imitation.
Nor can I leave this subject without a few words as to imitations in general. A very prominent and re- markable example occurs... to me. A late eminent collector of fine furniture left among other valuable things some Louis Quatorze tables inlaid and mounted in bronze and ormolu. They had cost him fabulous sums, yet at his famous sale, two years ago, they fetched very moderate prices.
Everyone was surprised who knew their beauty, except those who knew further that their late owner had been at great pains and expense to have a table, or some tables, made in exact imitation of old work.
II. ] FURNISHING AND OLD FURNITURE. 33 He had succeeded so well that it was found impossible after his death to know the copy from the original, and both suffered in consequence.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
It is better to have your drawing-room cabinets too plain than too ornamental, unless the ornament is of the very best and highest character. And again, it is better to have one thing of first-rate quality, and everything else of the utmost plainness, than to have a mixture of styles and degrees, and to have one thing good, another poor, and a third, perhaps, imitation.
Nor can I leave this subject without a few words as to imitations in general. A very prominent and re- markable example occurs... to me. A late eminent collector of fine furniture left among other valuable things some Louis Quatorze tables inlaid and mounted in bronze and ormolu. They had cost him fabulous sums, yet at his famous sale, two years ago, they fetched very moderate prices.
Everyone was surprised who knew their beauty, except those who knew further that their late owner had been at great pains and expense to have a table, or some tables, made in exact imitation of old work.
II. ] FURNISHING AND OLD FURNITURE. 33 He had succeeded so well that it was found impossible after his death to know the copy from the original, and both suffered in consequence.
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