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Art decoration applied to furniture (1878)

Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York : Harper & Bros. · leaf 112

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with the mightyfarthingales and high heels andstarched ruffs of the ladies whomoved among it, waited on bytheir ruffed and rapiered, stiff and stately, gallants. Hardly any otherwould seem so much in keeping with stout old Queen Bess herself; andit acquires another interest when we remember that it… … Elizabethan Table from Flaxtou Hall, Suffolk. 108 ART DECORATION APPLIED TO FURNITURE. XVI. THE JACOBEAN. WITH tlie ascension of James I. to the English throne, we can as-sume that such a greater degree of splendor was added to every-thing as usually appears at the crowning of another monarch, with…

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