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 32
chairs of state for nobles, were of the FURNITURE. 3 richest sumptuousness. Thus, for instance, we find St. Eloi, the celebratedworker in metals, manufacturing and embellishing two state-chairs of goldfor Clotaire, and a throne of gold for Dagobert. The chair ascribed toSt. Eloi, and known as the… … Fig. I.—The Curule Chair called the Fauteuil de Dagobert, in gilt bronze, now in the Musée des Souverains. lavished on the manufacture of tables. Historians tell us that St. Remy, acontemporary of Clovis, had a silver table decorated all over with sacredsubjects. The poet Fortunat, Bishop of…
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