Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess, 1817-1888 · London, S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington · leaf 420
t, fashioned out Furniture. 281 of the stem of an olive-tree growing in the court, andinlaid by Ulysses himself with gold, silver, and ivory, andbands of dyed purple ox-hide. The stone walls and roofwere built over to cover it in, as it stood yet rooted inthe ground.1 The illustration is a very… … Fig. 24.Assyrian delineation of Chaldean House. Furniture has been the excuse and the vehicle forembroideries, from the footstool and the cushion to thewindow curtain and the bed-hangings.3 Such curtains are the most permanently importantfeatures in the economy, or rather the luxury of the 1…
Embroidery · Needlework
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