Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 56
Love itself had nothingmore beautiful to offer than the reflection. Seneca has declared that thedowry that the Senate once bestowed upon the daughter of Scipio wouldno longer suffice to pay for the mirror of a freedwoman. The great slabs of darkened glass and of obsidian, in the panels ofrooms,… … Modern Gothic Girandoles. 52 ART DECORATION APPLIED TO FURNITURE. couple of the glass-makers of Murano, in Venice, learned the secret of sil-vering the back of a sheet of glass that our present mirror came into ex-istence. These glass - makers received the monopoly of the manufacturefor a score of…
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