French Furniture Under Louis XVI and the Empire #233607

Word, the ordinary product of this epoch has nothing to call for any infatuated devotion. A very wide — awake collector may still, from time to time, pick up in the heart of Paris, and for a mere song, authentic Jacobs unrecognised by the seller who has them tucked away in his sh0p, but they are becoming rare, and by the side of these lovely things, pure in line, sometimes with exquisite curves and of superior craftsmanship, how many dull flat horrors there are that have not even the excuse of being unpretentious.