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Studies in ancient furniture; couches and beds of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans (1905)

Williams, Caroline Ransom · Chicago : The University of Chicago Press · leaf 100

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oduction into the design as adapted to work inmarble. The rails seen in Plates IV-VI undoubtedly represent wooden construction, but it isnot so clear whether the ornament on the front-rail and the griffin support were of woodor of bronze, if, contrary to the view set forth above, the griffin was a… … -Marble Uilile in Ihe alriu House of RIclcager, Cj. p. 112, n. 27. = There is in the Archaeological Museum inFlorence a terra-cotta cinerary urn in the form of aseated life-size figure; the supports of the chair ofthis figure are sphinxes facing to the front withwings clasped about the sides of the…

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