Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 274
s 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 decorations,and had strap-work of iron and ornate hinges. Xhey werethe usual repositories of the… … Fig. 228.—Seats ; Fourteenth Century. (P. became the settles or principal seats in the living-room, and the back developed with an added hood or projecting covering into the dais, or throne-like seat, that was placed at the end of the chief room—the place of honoiir. Another and later develop-ment…
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