Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York : Harper & Bros. · leaf 56
except it were the real cabinets sprung from the locked and closedarmory, one of which a Florentine traveller describes to us, which hadabout it eight Oriental columns of alabaster, on each whereof was placed ahead of Csesar, covered with a canopy so richly set with precious stonesthat they… … A WATER-COLOR of Alma Tademas in the Centennial Expositionrepresented the former wife of one of the Merovingian kings sittingat her lattice, while the new wife, in the group without, receives the riteof baptism — sitting at herlattice, and contemplatingthe beauty that has beendiscarded, in a…
Furniture · Decoration and ornament
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