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Ancient and modern furniture and woodwork (1875)

Pollen, John Hungerford, 1820-1902 · [London] Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education, by Chapman and Hall · leaf 26

An illustration from Ancient and modern furniture and woodwork, 1875, leaf 26
FURNITURE. that of antique bronzes. The woodcut shows the usual type, with the richly ornamented handle. … long low stool decorated with ivory lies below the couch as a kind of step. The legs, as in many vase representations, are thick turned supports with lighter parts below, and a turned knob at the foot. On another vase Dionysus reclines on a thick round cushion at the head of the couch, while…

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