A study of the artist's way of working in the various handicrafts and arts of design (1905)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 387
THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY AND AFTER flags was like an out-of-door yard, for the purposes of the children, the dogs, and the retainers who raced about it or dragged burdens across it. The furniture, the screens, the tables, the settles, and the stools were then of a nature not unlike the fram- ing of… … Fig. 114. Table, about eight feet long, of about 1600 (Marquand collection) applied. Thus in Fig. 113, a Provencal side- board, of perhaps 1700, has preserved in its up- country make and adornment the simple general design and the carving of an earlier time, while the mouldings and the make-up is…
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