Just browsing through some books of renaissance illustrations and I found a woodcut from about 1480 entitled "The Household Utensils Necessary in Married Life" by Hans Paur.

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Just browsing through some books of renaissance illustrations and I found a woodcut from about 1480 entitled "The Household Utensils Necessary in Married Life" by Hans Paur.

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The first item is of course a bed but the two to the left of the couple seem a little out of place by modern reckoning:

<lj-cut text="those two items"><img src="http://www.lothene.org/AJstuff/Harness etc.gif""></lj-cut>

Seems reasonable to me however. And I think we have actually got pretty much everything in that woodcut.
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