Chats on old furniture : a practical guide for collectors (1906)
Hayden, Arthur, 1868-1946 · New York : F. A. Stokes · leaf 71
s stirred thenation, and a sumptuous Court set the fashion ingreater luxury of living. Gloriana, with her merchant-princes, her fleet of adventurers on the high seas, andthe pomp and circumstance of her troop of foreignlovers, brought foreign fashions and foreign art intocommoner usage. The growth… … ELIZABETHAN BEDSTEAD. DATED 1593. Carved oak, ornamenti-d in marquetry. (Height, 7 ft. 4 in ; length, 7 ft. 11 in.; width, 5 ft. 8 ia) (Victoria and Alhni Museum.) years. The chimney-corner took the place of theopen hearth ; chimneys were for the first time familiar THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE 67…
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