Europe - interior design

ivory and bone games boxes
games box lid 1440-70 Walters Museum	games box lid late 15thc Cluny Museum	games box lid late 15thc V&A Museum	games box side Princeton Univ Museum	games box lid mid 15thc Louvre Museum
box lidV&A Museum

household items
vase 1759-68 Bowes Museum	vase 1768 3-hole pipe (possibly) copyright - The Royal Collection	print 1792 British Museum mug 1800 -"A French family" V& A Museum		vase1770 V&A Museum
	plate centre 1789 drum, 2 sticks and wind instrument? France


wall decoration
tile vignette 1753 3-hole pipe (possibly) Germany	tiles 18th c. Portugal	tiles 1755-60 Portugal, V&A Museum		ceramic tile 1770, Liverpool British Museum
wall stucco decoration 18th c. private house, Gloucestershire	wall stucco 1753 Christ Church Library, Oxford	wall painting 1737 France



18th c automota devised by Vaucanson

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