Pollen, John Hungerford, 1820-1902 · [London] Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education, by Chapman and Hall · leaf 25
FURNITURE . 13 sembles the modern sofa. Women sat always, as in Rome, sometimes on the couch at the head or foot, on which the master … of the house or a guest reclined, generally on chairs. Besides chairs like the one represented here, the Greeks made arm-chairs ; and folding chairs of metal. In the Parthenon frieze Jupiter is seated in a square seat on thick turned legs, with a round bar for a back, resting on short turned posts…
Furniture · Woodwork
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