The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history (1910)
Foley, Edwin · London : T.C. and E.C. Jack · leaf 228
ilion add to the vivacity of this picturesque bit of old Spain. It has been reasonably conjectured that the vargueno cabinet tookits title from the small town of Vargas, near Toledo. In the Cluny Museum of Paris is a vargueSo cabinet of somewhatsimilar design to that in the Parnham Collection,… … RENAISSANCE IN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL 161 of the table of Solomon, fashioned by genii from a single emerald,and so finely ornamented with jewels that never did human beholdanything comparable with it upon a stand, one of whose golden(or emerald!) legs was sawn off by the Arab General Tarik, and…
Furniture · Decoration and ornament
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