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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 109

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the KarlsruheMuseum. Both Zannoni and Dr. Schumacher call thearticle of furniture a table. But tables, so far as I amaware, in both the Greek and Roman periods had uprightlegs with claw-feet or other animals feet, at least nevercrossed legs, as in this restoration. Zannonis drawing looks exactly… … Fig. so.—Part of a lerra-cotta tincr.iry urn.-Palermo. I have to thank the director of the KestnerMuseum, Dr. Schuchhardt, for the photographreproduced abo\e, as also for that of Fig. 45. Thebronze is 16 cm. high, with a lower diameter of3.5 cm. The left-hand prong has been broken offat a little…

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