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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 47

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and down. In Fig. 24 the legs are again roughly hewn out, but arc probably four-sided. The tenons are round. The uprights of the headboard are in one piece with the legs, as modern chair backs and legs are usually made; only here it seems probable, to judge by the generally rude appear-ance of the… … Img. 24.—Detail from a red-litfured vasc-painling.—Ar.o/ugicil Muscunt, Flortucc. GREEK PERIOD. TECH NIC 43 7- that the curve was bent or tooled out of a strais^ht piece of wood. One or tworails probably connect the uprights aljove the seat-level. There is nothing toindicate whether the side-rails…

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