Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 45
ings ; sometimes a group of centaurs.Frequently these articles were pieces of great extravagance, made of theprecious metals richly damasked, of ivory, of the costly woods of luxurywhose growth had been dwarfed and knotted and twisted so as to producewonderful variegations of grain and surface, and… … THE TABLE. 41 with Romans and Greeks, tripods and gueridons, and little round pieceson a column for work and flowers; and it is at such a table as one ofthose that ladies are represented in a picture of the fifteenth centurystanding and playing cards with a courtier. But before that little evidence…
Furniture · Interior decoration
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