lt, except the filligree work, which is left in plainsilver. It is one foot ten inches and a half high. The figure at the bottom of the present page represents a portion of therim of a very elegant dish of the enamelled pottery, which was invented by thecelebrated Bernard Palissy, in the preceding… … The piece of domestic furniture engraved below, made, we believe, of silver,is preserved in a collection of antiquities at Paris. The lady suspended bythe head was, without doubt, intended to be the representation of a belle; butit would not be imagined at first sight that she was at the same time…
Middle Ages · Costume · Decoration and ornament, Medieval
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