Williams, Leonard, b. 1871 · London : T.N. Foulis · leaf 130
the similar productionsof Ghiberti. The celosia or decorative wooden window-grating, imported by the Mussulman conquerorfrom Egypt and the East, extended to all partsof Christian Spain, and was particularly used inconvents. These gratings, identical in form andworkmanship with those of Cairo,^ were… … FURNITURE to projecting windows, so that the women of ahousehold could look into the street withoutthemselves being seen, a custom which the Spanishwoman still recalls to us by peering, for hours ata time, between the lowered persiana of herbalcony/ By the seventeenth century, whichmay truthfully…
Decorative arts
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