The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 37
our time, was an article manufactured much less for usethan for show. It was upon this dresser,—the introduction of which doesnot appear to go further back than the twelfth century, and the namewhereof sufficiently describes its purpose,—that there was displayed, in thevast halls of manorial… … Fig. 5.—Seats from Miniatures of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries. FURNITURE. 9 and even reliquaries. In palaces and mansions, the dressers were of gold,silver, or copper gilt; as were previously the tables. Persons of inferior rankhad only wooden tables, but they were scrupulous in covering…
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