Period furnishings; an encyclopedia of historic furniture, decorations and furnishings (1911)
Clifford, C. R. (Chandler Robbins), 1858-1935 · New York, Clifford & Lawton · leaf 87
y. Spain, Finance and England,eventually establishing silk manufactories in Europe.Notably in Sicily and Italy. Palermo, silk factorystarted 1100; Lucca, famous for silk weaving 1300. Persia was the original seat of art. and thencePersian design spread and was adopted and adaptedill North Africa,… … dolling the fan- (See and new flora, the oak tastic typeFig. I)adopted aschool ofemployingvine andleaf. Venicegave special at-tention to com-positions for al-tar decorations.(See Fig. 2.) Specimens ofthe Fifteenthand SixteenthCenturies d i s -play a lingeringtrace of Ori-ental art typeswhich…
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