The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 113
ury,and which evidently had to provide its full supply of dishes for the tablewhen, owing to the heavy expenses of war, the courtiers, following theexample of Louis XIV., sent their plate to the mint, and se mirenten faience, took to earthenware, as Saint-Simon says. Lastly we… … Let us also mention the Dutch pottery, called Delft ware, which, in thebeginning of the seventeenth century, began to find a place on all sideboardsand dressers. According to M. Brongniart, these came from a manufactoryfounded prior, perhaps, to the sixteenth century. We also instance thefiue…
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