Period furnishings; an encyclopedia of historic furniture, decorations and furnishings (1911)
Clifford, C. R. (Chandler Robbins), 1858-1935 · New York, Clifford & Lawton · leaf 84
volted from Spanishrule, under which they hadbeen a province, and estab-lished the kingdom of Portugal; the Portuguese dur-ing the Fourteenth Century became famous sailors,and early in 1500 opened possessions in Persia andIndia. Portuguese-Persian is the type of design (1500)showing the Persian… … Examples of Old Silk, 1750. liad been active in commerce anil famous for tiie greatcities of Ghent, Mechlin, Antwerp, Bruges, Amster-dam, Lcyden, Delft, Brussels and Rotterdam. Afterthe forty years war with Spain, the Northern prov-inces, whicli had been known early in the SeventeenthCentury as the…
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