Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York : Harper & Bros. · leaf 29
nt largent se depent ? Non ! And consequently artisans come fromabroad to a market that calls—for itis little that the home-born artisan cando till he learns the foreign secrets—weavers from Greece and Asia, gold-smiths from Milan and Venice. Theircraft becomes common; a commercein ivory, ebony,… … Mediaeval Dresser. to age- -till the last of the fashions infurniture, that a daughter of the Greek emperor—lending her days toilluminate with the unforgotten glories of her fathers court the barba-rians with whom she has wed—brings with her in the tenth century fromByzance, is one day utterly set…
Furniture · Decoration and ornament
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