bel afterward creditedit with German origin, but it seems unmistakablyFrench. A marked difference of conception is shown ina chest from the Hoentschel Collection of aboutthe middle of the fifteenth century, which is amasterpiece in its genre (reproduced, fig. 3). Ifwe compare it to the chest… … chest is no longer composed of long pieces of woodput together and strengthened by pieces of iron.The front and sides are divided into compart-ments, and this method of construction brought ina new mode of decoration, both of which were in-spired by the architecture and sculpture of thetime. The…
Art · Decoration and ornament
Internet Archive · University of Toronto, Robarts Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
![An illustration from Illustrated catalogue of the extraordinary collection of art treasures and antiquities acquired during the past year by Professore Commendatore Elia Volpi ... to be sold at unrestricted public sale at the American Art Galleries [on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 17th, 18th and 19th, 1917] (1917)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-illustratedcatal00volp-155-95.webp)
