 | Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland - 1840 - 456 páginas
...sapphires and pearls, and other precious stones, wrought with silver. This elegant piece of jewelry was used as a reservoir for sweet waters, which were forced out of its beak into a basin of white silver chased. Henry did not forget his own apparel when he endowed his queen so richly with... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1840 - 868 páginas
...sapphires and pearls, and other precious stones, wrought with silver. This elegant piece of jewelry was used as a reservoir for sweet waters, which were forced out of its beak into a basin of white silver chased. Henry did not forget his own apparel when he endowed his queen so richly with... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone, Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton Countess of Wilton - 1841 - 424 páginas
...sapphires and pearls, and other precious jewels, wrought with silver. This elegant piece of jewellery was used as a reservoir for sweet waters, which were forced out of its beak into a basin of white silver chased. As the knights associated these birds with all their ideas of fame, and made their... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1845 - 688 páginas
...whose train was set with sapphires and pearls, and other precious stones, wrought with silver and gold, used as a reservoir for sweet waters, which were forced out of its beak into a chased silver basin for the use of the guests at the banquet. Although Eleanor conducted herself with... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1848 - 702 páginas
...whose train was set with sapphires and pearls, and other precious stones, wrought with silver and gold, used as a reservoir for sweet waters, which were forced out of its beak into a chased silver hasin for the use of the guests at the banquet. Although Eleanor conducted herself with... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 534 páginas
...whose train was set with sapphires and pearls, and other precious stones, wrought with silver and gold, used as a reservoir for sweet waters, which were forced out of its beak into a chased silver basin for the use of the guests at the banquet. Although Eleanor conducted herself with... | |
 | Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland - 1864 - 708 páginas
...City Records. ' See the elegant description of this kind of head-dress, in the lay of «ir Lann fel, written a few years after : " Their heads were dight...called baudekins, and, arrayed in a garment of this brillinnt tissue of gold, he sat upon his throne, and " glittered very gloriously," ' when his young... | |
 | Sourindro Mohun Tagore - 1881 - 610 páginas
...Sapphires and Pearls, and other precious stones wrought with silver. This elegant piece of jewelry was used as a reservoir for sweet waters, which were forced out of its beak into a basin of silver chased." The Spaniards and Italians of the 14th and 15th centuries were famous for their extravagance in apparel,... | |
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Margaret of France, was a large silver peacock, whose train was set with sapphires and pearls, and other precious stones, wrought with silver. This elegant piece of... 