Studies in ancient furniture; couches and beds of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans (1905)
Williams, Caroline Ransom · Chicago : The University of Chicago Press · leaf 73
d like bolsters,others approximately squareand more or less flat; thefrontispiece shows oblong,fairly thick pillows. Pillowsat the feet of the recliningpenson (see Fig. 29 and PlateYllh), to which M. Girard cahs attention,^ appear first in the fifth century. Theearliest certain instance of a… … Fig. 36, It is usually difficult to tell whether a singlemattress striped lengthwise is intended or separatemattresses. Where, however, as on a black-figuredhydria, B 301, in the British Museum (Micali,Storia, Plate 89), the ends of the mattre.sscs fall overthe bed .separately, there can be no…
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