Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 47
don the buffets and dressers where the draperies and the golden and jew-elled cups made superb show; there were pitchers and cups and vases andbowls of gold and silver, baskets of silver, enamelled knives, forks likepincers, and the grand surtout. Goldsmithery was far in advance of theother arts,… … Medieval Table of Great Personages. THE TABLE. 43 holding a series of smaller ones. This also was derived from the usage ofantiquity, where there was a glittering centre-piece, renewed at everycourse, one of which is described as an ass in bronze carrying pannier- ofsilver, from which slowly…
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