Beeton's housewife's treasury of domestic information : comprising complete and practical instructions on the house and its furniture, artistic decoration economy, toilet, children, etiquette, domestic and fancy needlework, dressmaking and millinery, and all other household matters : with every requisite direction to secure the comfort, elegance, and prosperity of the home : a companion volume to "Mrs. Beeton's book of household management" : profusely illustrated (1879)
Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary), 1836-1865 · London ; New York : Ward, Lock & Co., Warwick House, Salisbury Square, E.C. · leaf 335
BOWL OF GUBBIO WARE. 288 Artistic Homes. … This is one of the uses of having mantelpieces. You may often see on no veryrich mantelpiece a shell for the sea, a stuffed bird or some feathers for the air, acurious piece of mineral for the earth, a glass of water with some flowers in it forthe visible process of creation, a cast of sculpture…
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