The arts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1886)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : J.S. Virtue & Co. · leaf 33
een described as used at the grand feast of 8 FURNITURE. Charles Y., and which moreover has been retained, altered to a sideboardwith shelves, almost to our time, was an article manufactured much less foruse than for show. It was upon this dresser—the introduction of whichdoes not appear to go… … Fig. 6.—Christine de Pizan, contemporary with Charles V. and Charles VI., seated on a Chair in caned 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 Burgundy Library, Brussels, Fifteenth…
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