Only later, in new tool types, did they imitate the rococo flourish of their European predecessors.
Perhaps it was to appeal to the flood of newly arrived American craftsmen who might find in the rococo something reminiscent of the older tools they had known in Europe.
Richard Muther, the erudite German critic: "A marriage is taking place in the sacristy of a rococo church in Madrid.
The walls are covered with faded Cordova leather hangings figured in gold and dull colours, and a magnificent rococo screen separates the sacristy from the middle aisle.
The Countess Valdu lived on the upper floor of a rococo palace near the Piazza San Carlo; and here Odo, led by Cantapresto, presently found himself shown into an apartment where several ladies and gentlemen sat at cards.
The whole rococo was in it, only in a much more gracious, yearning note.
Finished in the most exuberant rococo style, it is an edifice from which all architectural or religious inspiration is conspicuously absent.
But he couldn't find the rococo room--or perhaps he didn't recognise it.
There area few rococo churches in Italy, and perhaps more in Spain, which approach the perfection achieved by the Wurzburg cathedral in the baroque style.
It prevailed so universally in Wurzburg that it left her with the name of the Rococo City, intrenched in a period of time equally remote from early Christianity and modern Protestantism.
The rococo margraves and margravines used of course to worship in St. Johannis Church.
The rococo must have always had a sneaking charm for us, when we were pinning our faith to pointed arches; and yet I suppose we were perfectly sincere.
We'll go to the cathedral at once; I want a good gulp of rococo to begin with; there wasn't half enough of it at Ansbach.
But the odd thing is to find the apotheosis of the rococo away up here in Germany.
The Rathhaus is a salad-dressing of German gothic and French rococo as to its architectural style, and is charming in its way, but the Marches were in the market-place for the sake of that moment of Heine's boyhood.
At a later date the decoration consists principally of flowers issuing from cornucopiae and rococo ornaments; this sort of style is called in France "a la corne.
That rococo seventeenth-century French imitation of the true Renaissance, called out in Carl a boundless enthusiasm, as the Italian original had done two centuries before.
Then, after a while, the little rococo bedroom in the Ritz-Carlton was empty save for a young man asleep on the bed, holding in his clenched hand a white hibiscus blossom.
A single lamp was burning in the white-and-rose rococo room.
They fitted naturally into the developing rocaille style (corrupted into Rococo outside of France), and it is not surprising that they were also produced extensively in Paris.
These papers covered rooms with landscape panoramas or with landscapes in Rococo scroll frames, relieved by decorative panels with busts, statuettes, and floral ornaments.
The Danish court and the diplomatic corps were splendid, decorations glittered, and the white and gold rococo setting of the concert room was worthy of it all.
The Wellington Hotel was a rococo haven for such refugees from the modern social choler, and its doors flew open and offered them a family rate, excellent cuisine, quarantine.
Although America seemed becoming more and more indifferent to the Puritan except as a slightlyrococo ornament, he was only the more amusing as a study for the Monkbarns of Boston Bay, and Dr.
In 1876 the rococo setting of Baireuth seemed the correct atmosphere for Siegfried and Brunhilde, perhaps even for Parsifal.
The great façade on the gardens is like an enormous rococo clock-face all incrusted with images and arabesques and tablets.
The gilt scrollwork under the lip shows the rococo at its best.
In the desire to cater for luxurious tastes, richness of ornament has been carried to excess, nor do the ungainly forms with their twisted rococo handles compare in attractiveness with the modest shapes of earlier times.
When compared with the previous illustrations, a distinct change of style is noticeable; not a trace of the rococo of Louis XV.
The scrollwork and contorted forms of the rococo period entirely disappear, to be revived only in imitative work of a later time, when they had lost all vitality and meaning, and were no longer in keeping with the spirit of the age.
Illustration] [Illustration] Whilst Beyer was the pioneer of the classical in porcelain figures, the Ludwigsburg factory was slow to abandon the rococo style in its table wares.
Florid rococo forms were abandoned and replaced by the severer contours and simpler decoration of the classic style of Louis XVI.
This is well exemplified by a large jardinière with rococo ormolu mounting, also in the Fitzhenry gift.
The Revolution was the deathblow to Rococo ornament.
Not so much can be said for the other commode of the rococo style, even though the mounts be by Caffieri and executed in masterly manner.
Straight lines took the place of the twisted contortions of the rococo style.
At first it possessed considerable grace, but towards the end of the reign the designs ran riot in rococo details, displaying incongruous decoration.
There were hundreds of daffodils blooming in the garden round Ararat House; and April bringing an unexpected halcyon was the very April of the poets whose verses haunted that great rococo room.
The room was a tatterdemalion rococo barbarized more completely by gothic embellishments that nevertheless gave it the atmosphere of the fantasts with whom Michael had identified it.
The moated grange and the dark tower were harmless rococo terrors beside the maleficent commonplace of Agnes House.
Only you must not let them put on that rococo cornice, quite out of character, my dear boy.
A real rococo cornice is a precious lot better, I guess, than a beastly imitation Renaissance frieze cut with an oyster knife," put in a gruff New York voice.
Designs of a similar rococo character are found in England, but only in crestings such as those which surmount the towers of Wollaton and the gatehouse of Hardwick Hall.
In Germany and the Netherlands in the 17th and 18th centuries the step gables assume very elaborate forms of an extremely rococo character, and they are sometimes of immense size, with windows in two or three storeys.
Mrs. Norris smiled and nimbly stepped out of my way and bravely answered, like a real rococo aristocrat: "I fear that you are prejudiced.
Rococo monarch, and he tried to give the charms and grace of the Rococo epoch to his surroundings.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rococo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
