. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . and to carry out the fittings ofSolomons temple. The many ingenious illustrations of these sacredchefs dceuvres are based upon non - technical and vague Biblicaldescriptions, liberally eked out by the artists imagination. One would like to add accurate illustrations to the chief Biblicalreferences to decorative furniture ; but if we except the golden candle-stick and table of shewbread carved on the Arch of Titus at Rome,no authentic examples or illustrated records of Jewish art are so far as it existed it appears to
. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . and to carry out the fittings ofSolomons temple. The many ingenious illustrations of these sacredchefs dceuvres are based upon non - technical and vague Biblicaldescriptions, liberally eked out by the artists imagination. One would like to add accurate illustrations to the chief Biblicalreferences to decorative furniture ; but if we except the golden candle-stick and table of shewbread carved on the Arch of Titus at Rome,no authentic examples or illustrated records of Jewish art are so far as it existed it appears to have been a servile copy, or atbest a blend of Mesopotamian and Egyptiandetail, of a primitive and portable character,suited to the Assyrian affinities and wander-ing tendencies of its owners. The Hebrewrecords give no indication of the possessionof any original taste in decoration, probablyowing to then- absorption in theological bed of Og, king of Bashan, and thatof Solomon, with those of gold and silver—mentioned in the Book of Esther as havinsr. PART OF ASSYRIAN nRONZE 880 white, green, and blue hangings, fastened to silver rings m pillara of marble by cords of fine linen and purple—must have been almostas notable examples of the furniture of repose as were the ivorywardrobes mentioned in the fourteenth Psalm. The altars for burntofferings and incense and the table of shewbread would be interestingalso, apart from their associations, being constructed—as was the Ark ofthe Covenant—of Shittim wood, a hard and figury grained varietyof acacia. In the Talmud, which was composed some 400 or 500 years ,further and more detailed references to furniture are to be found,but as far as one may judge from the vague language, httle ornothing is indicated that had not been borrowed from othernations.
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