Studies in ancient furniture; couches and beds of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans (1905)
Williams, Caroline Ransom · Chicago : The University of Chicago Press · leaf 71
arrangement would give three levels ofstrands, the upper interlaced surface and the twounder sets of strands passing in directions at rightangles to one another. In the anthropologicalcollection housed in the Natural History Museum at Hamburg is a rude couch from east Africa, No.C 799, which has… … CHAPTER IV FURNISHINGS—MATTRESSES, PILLOWS, VALANCES, AND DRAPERIES Four kinds of furnishings may be noted in antique representations of Greekand Roman couches. These are mattresses, pillows, valances, and loose dra-peries, the last either covering the occupants of the bed or thrown over the bed…
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