Ah, the days when encyclopedias may not have known much about Art, but certainly knew what they liked: Rococo... is a debased variety of the Louis-Quatorze style of ornament, proceeding from it through the degeneracy of the Louis-Quinze. Rococo is generally a meaningless assemblage of scrolls and crimped conventional shell-work, wrought into all sorts of irregular and indescribable forms, without individuality and without expression. (The British Encyclopedia, 1933) Thatll put Johnny Foreigner in his place.
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