PERIOD
Early to mid – 18th century
CHARACTERISTICS
Light, playful, informal, rustic scenes, curved forms, pastel colours, light-coloured woods, light gilding.
MOTIFS
Flowers, C- and S- scrolls, shells, rockwork, scrollwork, light grotesques(16th –century decorative style using distorted human, animal and plant forms), chinoiseries (fanciful exotic motifs derived from Chinese originals, applied to European furniture, textiles, wallpaper ceramics).
ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT
Developed in France after the Regency period (1715-23) as a reaction to the heavy, ponderous forms of the Baroque, spread to Germany, Austria, Britain, and North America: revived in Europe from the 1820s-1860s, as a reaction to the severe Empire style, and again between 1880 and 1900
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