The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 36
only 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. 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 caried woodwith back and canopj^ 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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