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Couches and beds of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans (1905)

Williams, Caroline Ransom · Chicago : University of Chicago Press · leaf 97

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TERRA-COTTA FROM TAN AGRA. LOUVRE 91 The pillars are plank constructions and show in their ornament reminiscences of the incised type of leg.' The couch is alike at the two ends (a/j.(pifce<paXo‘?). The reliefs which surmount the legs are no doubt ornate substitutes for the usual volutes of the… … b c Fig. 47. — Various types of chair and couch supports. ' The relation to the incised type is at first sight vanced. Here the ornament no longer forms a more obvious in some other rectangular furniture single, unified pattern, the various elements of which pass into one another without…

Furniture, Ancient · Beds · Seating (Furniture)

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