Furniture and interior decoration of the Italian renaissance (1921)
Schottmüller, Frida, 1872-1936 · New York, Brentano's · leaf 34
ces of house-hold furniture.This is true ofwriting andreading-desks,stands for busts,and other pur-poses, brackets,mirror and pic-ture-frames, and other objectspeculiar to thehome. The use of thechurch reading-desk or lectern was for thepsalter to restupon at such aheight that all the choristers… … 26. Italy, XVIth Century:Carved Stool Schloss-Museum, Berlin J) Most tables and a great many sideboards are likewisehigher than seems convenient in our days. XXVIII thus making turning the pages easy. Here as well asin the church-stalls, intarsia work and rich carving wereusual as ornamentation. In…
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