Studies in ancient furniture; couches and beds of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans (1905)
Williams, Caroline Ransom · Chicago : The University of Chicago Press · leaf 53
ade of blocks of wood rather than of planks; these are the turned forms. Side by side with plank constructions fromthe earliest period are beds which show the use of the lathe. The design given in Fig. 28 is portrayed in vase-paintings, fortunately in bothend- and side-\iews. The legs are turned… … Banquet-sctne. On a vase signed by Duris.—British ^[uscn>JI. the posts, and two side-pieces of concave curve which are mortised above into thecross-rail of the head-rest and below into the side-rails of the bed; (3) within thisframe a curved filling which consists perhaps of a number of slats of…
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