THE STYLE OF LOUIS XIV. 



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281. VERSAILLES : CHIMNEY-PIECE OF SALLE DES GARDES DE LA REINE, 

 BY C. LE BRUN (c. 1675). 



and almost always broad, with enriched borders, the centre either 

 plain or containing a tapestry, a picture, a relief, a carved or painted 

 arabesque, or else they are more elaborately subdivided with a circular, 

 elliptical, or octagonal panel in the centre. The doorways (Fig. 280) 

 are surmounted by a cartouche, trophy or other ornamental feature of 

 more or less pyramidal form. The decoration of the chimney-piece, at 

 any rate in the earlier part of the period, still generally reaches to the 

 cornice, and consisting primarily of a large enriched panel (Figs. 281 



