Regency Household: Drawing Room Curtains and Work Table

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DRAWING ROOM WINDOW CURTAIN AND WORK TABLE This design represents an elegant drapery of light green silk and pink taffeta linings the sub curtains are of clear muslin The festoon draperies are supported by the eagle of Jupiter embracing the thunderbolt by arrows which have pierced the wall and by termini of foliages these draperies are decorated by an embossed applique border which forms double rows upon the festoons and divides the curtains from the extreme supports over which it falls as if suspended by them the curtains are also bordered by a silk open fringe The work table is designed to be richly carved and gilt and is a tripod supporting a circular tablet which contains the necessary articles for the species of employment to which it is dedicated When the pier between the windows is narrow and the proportion of the windows themselves admits of being thus formed into the character of a single window these draperies are highly ornamental

From Modern Furniture Consisting of Forty-four Coloured Engravings (1823).

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