boar's-heads

Updated: December 3, 2024

Charming paintings, the work of unknown artists, fill the panels between the female figures, representing the luxuries of the table, boar's-heads, salmon, rare shell-fish, and all edible things, which fantastically suggest men and women and children, and rival the whimsical imagination of the Chinese, the people who best understand, to my thinking at least, the art of decoration.

Honoré de Balzac - Sons of the Soil