Shaw, Henry, 1800-1873, William Pickering (Firm) · London : William Pickering · leaf 140
The initial letter on the foregoing page, is a copy of one of the illuminatedletters in a printed book of the latter part of the fifteenth century, in theBritish Museum. Date tlie latter pari, of Die Ccaturv. … • CUP, BY ANDREA MANTEGNA. VERY one who examines the pictures of theend of the fifteenth and beginning of the six-teenth centuries, is struck with the eleganceexhibited in the forms and ornaments of manyof the cups and vases of that period. Thedesigns for these utensils were often given bythe first…
Middle Ages · Costume · Decoration and ornament, Medieval
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