Furniture and interior decoration of the Italian renaissance (1921)
Schottmüller, Frida, 1872-1936 · New York, Brentano's · leaf 32
ealplaces for study (figs. 6, 40). The free standing small cup-boards with their broad overlapping tops seem to have beenanother transition of the table to the dresser. But these arevery rarely to be met with and, in all probability, weremore meant for ornament than for use. For betweenthe modestly… … 22. Marble Table, ) (Fig. 248.) Many of the existing- small dressers wereoriginally praying desks, which art dealers in order to disposeof them advantageously provided with a small socle insteadof the kneeling step. A peculiarly broad praying desk inthe Villa Pia near Florence is a free copy of a…
