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 210
d cup on a fieldgules surmounts the grocers candles. These banners were displayed only on great public ceremonies, in solemnprocessions, receptions, marriages, the obsequies of kings, queens, princes,and princesses. Exempted from military service, the goldsmiths, unlikeother trade corporations, had… … Fig. 121. Fig. 122. Thus in Paris they had the custody of the gold and silver plate when thegood city entertained some illustrious guest at a banquet ; they carriedthe canopy above the head of the king on his joyful accession ; or, crownedwith roses, walked bearing on their shoulders the venerated…
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