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<p>[QUOTE="Mansons2005, post: 67926, member: 121"]Personally, I would check in the joints and crevices to see if there is any trace of gold/gilt. It looks like a stripped version of some of the over-the-top late 1800s stuff I used to see in the New York drawing rooms and libraries of the super nouveau riche as a kid. In other words, tumpery made for the tasteless classes of the era..................the Gilded Age as it were</p><p><br /></p><p>NEO-BAROQUE! That is the term I was looking for....................[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Mansons2005, post: 67926, member: 121"]Personally, I would check in the joints and crevices to see if there is any trace of gold/gilt. It looks like a stripped version of some of the over-the-top late 1800s stuff I used to see in the New York drawing rooms and libraries of the super nouveau riche as a kid. In other words, tumpery made for the tasteless classes of the era..................the Gilded Age as it were NEO-BAROQUE! That is the term I was looking for....................[/QUOTE]
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