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 38
y all the valuable plate required forthe table, but many other objects of goldsmiths work which played no partin the banquet—vases of all sorts, statuettes, figures in high relief, jewels, FURNITURE. 9 and even reliquaries. In palaces and mansions, the dressers were of gold,silver, or copper gilt ;… … Fig 6. — Christine de Pizan, contemporary with Charles V. and Charles VI., seated on a Chair in carved woodwith back and canopy, and tapestry of worsted or figured silk. The box or chest which formed the writing-table contained books. (Miniature from a MS. in the Bibl. of Burgundy-Bruxelles,…
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