Studies in ancient furniture; couches and beds of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans (1905)
Williams, Caroline Ransom · Chicago : The University of Chicago Press · leaf 27
tailpiece, chap. i).During the main part of the periodnow under consideration, however, andon into the beginning of the fifth century,beds of either turned or rectangular legs,so far as we know them, had low head-Attira boards. The normal Attic type with rectangular legs having incisions (Fig. 27)… … SIXTH CENTURY, SECOND HALF 23 near the top, and the characteristic incisions (real or de]jicted) two^hirds of theway to tlie ground, with palmette ornaments above and Ijclow them. The longsides of the bed were formed by connecting-pieces, which were not very wide andwere often ornamented by…
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