Old Cape Colony a Chronicle of Her Men And Houses From 1652 1806

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Old Cape Colony a Chronicle of Her Men And Houses From 1652 1806
Alys Fane Keatinge Trotter
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The interior of the houses in Cape Town, says Le Vaillant, showed no marks of frivolous luxury. " All the furniture is in simple and noble taste. There are no tapestries, and a few paintings or mirrors form the principal ornaments. " The artistic Frenchman alone of the many writers 294 MEN AND HOUSES on Table Bay mentions the really beautiful Colonial furniture. The genius of Holland is always that of detail, and the Dutchman was par excellence the cabinet-maker of Europe. Even before the adven
...t of William HI there were Dutch cabinet-makers in England, and much of the seventeenth and eighteenth century OLD COLONIAL-MADE CHAIR.
work of the two countries is extraordinarily alike. I think all the fine ehenistes of France in the time of Louis XIV were of Dutch or Flemish origin, and though they wrought after the French style, there is often, especially amongst the earlier work, a distinctly ungallic flavour. Portugal is 295 OLD CAPE COLONY said to have brought into Europe Indo-Portuguese furniture from the Indies.


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