Chats on old furniture : a practical guide for collectors (1906)
Hayden, Arthur, 1868-1946 · New York : F.A. Stokes · leaf 76
CHATS ON OLD FURNITURE 68 romances of Italy affected all the Elizabethan men of letters. Shakespeare, in his “ Merchant of Venice ” and his other plays, plainly shows the Italian in¬ fluence. In costume, in speech, and in furniture, it became the fashion to follow Italy. To Ascham it seemed like “… … rANEL OF CARVED OAK. ENGLISH ; EARLY SIXTEENTH CENTURY. Showing interlaced strapwork. ( Victoria and Albert Museum.) The result of this wave of fashion on the domestic furniture of England was to impart to it the elegance of Italian art combined with a national sturdiness of character seemingly…
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