| LEGEND TO THE ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE PRINT BELOW Print Specifics:
A machine translation of an excerpt of the original French description: THE BEAUTIFUL FIREPLACE OF THE PALACE OF FONTAINEBLEAU, ANDIRONS AND BELLOWS.: The chiennetz, and also chimneys and queminel were works of considerable weight and expensive; one sees in the "accounts of the royal buildings" to appear, for example, four pairs of iron chenetz for the rooms of the Royne, a pair weighing ix, xx , xviij livres, which make 455 livres of iron to xvj deniers parisis. (De Laborde, Glossary archaeologic.) The broad bellows out of carved wooden, finished by a bronze ferrule of an elegant work, these to be a vulgar piece of furniture when master sculptors, painters even, enjoyed as we see in the sixteenth century, to combine the decoration, of an artistic character. artistic character. We know," says André Potier in Willemin's text, "that it is on a bellows once belonging to our great actor Talma that one of the most authentic portraits of of the immortal Shakspeare has been preserved for us. The bellows carved in bas-relief was a wedding present, probably representing the marital home. This custom still existed in the seventeenth century, to which is attributed the is attributed to the armorial bellows represented on both sides belonging to Mr. Poldi Pezzoli of the remarkable photographic collection formed by Mr. G. Rossi under the name of Museum of industrial art of Milan. Martin2001 Satisfaction Guaranteed Policy!
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