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 36
rank amon;^articles of luxury, we tlnd <>-old and silver always preferred for dinnerservices; hut marhle, rock crystal, and glass appeared in turn, artisticallyworked in a thousand elegant or singular forms, as cups, ewers, largetumhlers, gohlets, &c. (Fig. ^)- To tlie gohlet especially… … Fig. 8.—A State Banquet in the Fifteenth Century, with the ser\-ice of dishes brought in and handed round to thesound of musical instruments. (Miniature from a MS. in the Bibl. Nat. in Paris.) account of the supposed antiquity of its origin. Thus we see representedamong the presents given to the…
Art, Medieval · Art, Renaissance
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