Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 273
Fig. 226.—Dining Table on Trestles ; Fourteenth Century. (P.) English manuscript of the date of 1400. For these illus-trations, and many others on the subject of furniture, weare indebted to the work of Mr. J. H. Pollen on Furni- 254 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. ture and Woodwork. The bed in the latter… … Fig. 22;.—Bedroom Interior; 1400, (P.) partly an open press, with pottery, and metal vases placedas decoration on the top. Chests, trunks, or baJiiits^ were at this period, and in thetime of the Normans, the most important articles in furni-ture : they were often made with inlaid wood…
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