Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 48
antiquity, 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 dripped some delicious sauce upon the dishbelow. In the Renaissance more attention was paid to the beauty of the tablethan ever… … French Renaissance Table. tables then, and of that of their equipment when used for dining, may begathered from the description which Benvenuto Cellini gives of a salt-cellar that he made for King Francis, since, where minor articles are sosplendid, the rest must have corresponded with them. The…
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