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... Chinese manner at Trianon on the northern side of the Grand Canal . This was faced with the nearest possible European imitation in blue and white Delft earthenware and was as striking an evidence of the Chinese mode as the Pagoda ...
... Chinese manner at Trianon on the northern side of the Grand Canal . This was faced with the nearest possible European imitation in blue and white Delft earthenware and was as striking an evidence of the Chinese mode as the Pagoda ...
Page 232
... Chinese manner at Trianon on the northern side of the Grand Canal . This was faced with the nearest possible European imitation in blue and white Delft earthenware and was as striking an evidence of the Chinese mode as the Pagoda ...
... Chinese manner at Trianon on the northern side of the Grand Canal . This was faced with the nearest possible European imitation in blue and white Delft earthenware and was as striking an evidence of the Chinese mode as the Pagoda ...
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... Chinese art demanded a foil for their negligent beauty in tortuous and uncouth rocks overhang- ing at abrupt angles , wild waterfalls and ruins . The soil excavated to make the artificial lake would be used to build the mound and the ...
... Chinese art demanded a foil for their negligent beauty in tortuous and uncouth rocks overhang- ing at abrupt angles , wild waterfalls and ruins . The soil excavated to make the artificial lake would be used to build the mound and the ...
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amongst ancient appeared architecture arrangement artificial artistic avenues beauty became beds birds built canals Capability Brown centre century charm Chinese Chinese gardens cloister colour court cultivation Cut-work cypress decorative delight Dutch effect Egypt England English gardening fact fashion flowering plants flowers fountain French fruit grass Greece Greek green grotto ground groves Hampton Court hedges Helen Allingham herbs hills history of gardening horticulture idea Italian Italy land landscape later lawns lines manner marble medieval ment modern motive nature never ornament painting palace paradise park parterres period Persia Persian garden phase picture plants pleasure Pliny Pope Reginald Blomfield religious Renaissance Roman Rome roses scene scheme scientific seats shade side space spirit style surroundings symbolism taste temple terraces tion topiary tradition trees Tudor period variety VAUX-LE-VICOMTE Versailles villas violets walks walls wild Younger Pliny