rackedhampton: Rocaille (And Baby Clothes!) in Southampton's Erika's Place II

The art of decorating things with shells is called rocaille . Originally the word referred to the shells and stones applied to artificial grottoes in the seventeenth century, but the style developed most during the reign of Louis XV in France .

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