Studies in ancient furniture; couches and beds of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans (1905)
Williams, Caroline Ransom · Chicago : The University of Chicago Press · leaf 74
red in horizontal registers, are admirably reproduced in the Pergamene frag-ments of Plates IV and VI. Another richly figured valance is represented ina rude terra-cotta from Egypt (Plate Vila). The present rapid sketch may beterminated with a mention of the exceptionally thick mattresses of Roman… … l-ir..red-hgurLi 7.—Eros ministLTing li> the dying Adii\;isc-painting.—XiipU-s. In Fig. 37 it is difficult to see how the draperyis adjusted over the headboard, unless it is fastenedto the mattress whose curve it follows. It wouldhardly hang so full and even, if it were a large cover-let thrown…
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