Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 270
alking-room, and some of the rooms had fireplaces, but notchimneys. The principal room was the hall or assembly-room, which had a fireplace in the centre, the smokeescaping through the lantern light in the roof FURNITURE. 2>I In the Norman times the principal additions to thefurniture of English… … Fig. 221.—Scandinavian Seat or Throne of the Middle Ages. decorations, and were bound with wrought-iron claspsand hinges, which were just beginning to come into use. The bed-clothes and personal clothing of the nobles andrich landowners began to assume a rich character, andwere often embroidered.…
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