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 39
of the nation scarcely usedany other utensils but those of earthenware, or wood ; or else of iron orcopper. Advancing in the course of centuries, and till the period when theprogress of the ceramic art enabled its productions at length to rank amongarticles of luxury, we find gold and silver always… … Fig. 8.—A State Banquet in the Fifteenth Century, with the service of dishes brought in and handed round to thesound of musical instruments. (Miniature trom a MS. in the Imp. Lib. in Paris.) To the goblet, especially, seem to belong all honorary privileges in theetiquette of the table ; for the…
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