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How to use chinoiserie in a sentence

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The elaborate epergne, made by Thomas Pitts of London in 1761, bespeaks the chinoiserie influence on late rococo English decorative arts.
Since the vogue for chinoiserie included keeping exotic animals, the manufacture of porcelain animals is understandable.
It is stripped down chinoiserie, all wood and fretting, strictly rectilinear, lugubrious.
I was charmed by the delicate chinoiserie of the animation style, especially the title credits.
Snow, one of the features of the chinoiserie here, is frequently associated in Prynne's work with the limits of survival and habitation.
Even the delicate amatory trophy of Cupid's bow and arrow has moved away from chinoiserie and rococo sources.
The most usual decorative themes in penwork are neoclassicism, chinoiserie, and floral subjects.
The introduction of a British ship into a chinoiserie scene is highly unusual and vividly illustrates Liverpool's early interest in world trade.
La Maison's range of originals spans the 18th and 19th centuries, with gilded-cherub motifs, lacquered black chinoiserie and caned beds.
The Parnassians contributed to the cultivation of this taste for chinoiserie.
He developed an extensive decorative program, concentrating almost entirely on chinoiserie.
One of the most successful styles adopted by carvers of rococo overmantels was chinoiserie.
As the taste for chinoiserie flourished, textiles such as chintz, wallpapers, screens and cabinets freely incorporated Asian motifs both real and imagined.
A former editor-in-chief of Elle Decoration, Leece was commissioned by publisher Periplus Editions last September to examine the global appetite for chinoiserie.
The look brought together Far Eastern inspiration and Western craftsmanship, creating the foundation for the style known as chinoiserie, which is still popular today.
Both sets in Plate X display many of the fashionable features of the day they are engraved in the popular chinoiserie style, and some pieces have trifid ends.
The vegetal motifs interwoven between these letters are highly intricate, including lotus flowers and other elements of chinoiserie.
A lot of chinoiserie was designed by Boucher, adapted also to furniture, objets d'art, materials, and porcelain.
In France the Louis XV style gave especial opportunities to chinoiserie, as it blended well with the established rococo.
With French and German influences came chinoiserie, which was first introduced in the Palazzo Reale in Turin, and would spread all the way to Palermo.
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Recently I planned a small boudoir in a country house that depended on a gay chinoiserie paper for its charm.
Mrs. Frederick Havemeyer has a similar bed covered with a chinoiserie chintz.
Garner shows a Lambeth mug embodying this style of decoration combined with a suggestion of chinoiserie around the waist.
The green curio cabinet with its gold chinoiserie motif became the leitmotif of Younger's design scheme.
He was also the Executive Chef at Cellar in the Sky at Windows on the World in the World Trade Center, La Fourchette and Chinoiserie.
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