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Title: The industrial arts in Spain
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Riaño, Juan F. (Juan Facundo), 1829-1901
Subjects: Decorative arts Pottery
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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orum .... mente +. The first ofthese is from St. Luke, iv., v. 30, a passage often quoted byalchemists. This arch serves as a portal to the cupboard, which is about afoot deep, and is divided into two compartments with two rows ofshelves. Each of these is supported by a series of Moorish arches,the tympani of which are ornamented with tracery, or an orna-mentation of leaves in a geometrical and Oriental manner. Onthe rim of the upper part is repeated the following inscription inAfrican characters: Felicity and Fortune. On the lower shelf are the following words in Spanish in Gothiccharacters : -f Dios : te : salve : estrella : de : la : mannana :niedicina : de : los : peccadores : reina 4- Hail ! morning star;medicine of sinners ; queen. This Alhacena, or cupboard, existed formerly in the court ofan old house at Toledo, known by the name of Casa de la Parra,and is constantly called * Botica de los Templarios, the Templarsdispensary, probably because the Templars occupied the parish of
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FURNITURE. J15 St. Michael, in which the house stands, and because the word* medicine is mentioned in the inscription. In order to increase the hst of these objects, which are unfortu-nately so rare, it is necessary to mention the organ case, decoratedwith fine Moorish tracery, in the chapel founded by Diego deAnaya, Archbishop of Seville in 1374, in the cloister of thecathedral of Salamanca. Another specimen of furniture of interest of the 14th century isthe shrine or casket containing the remains of San Isidoro, exist-ing in the parish church of San Andres at Madrid. This casket is7 feet 5 inches long 3 the cover is formed of two plain surfaces,forming a roof, which leaves a triangular pediment at each end.The shrine is made of wood, covered outside with a coat of paint-ing in distemper, and is decorated with a series of painted com-partments simulating pointed tricuspid arches let into others whichare mitre-shaped; in the interior spaces are painted a series of re-presentations of

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