Studies in ancient furniture; couches and beds of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans (1905)
Williams, Caroline Ransom · Chicago : The University of Chicago Press · leaf 79
rs on the ivorycarvings mentioned, p. 46, end of n. 3, and Pro-fessor G. Kortes theory that these carvings mayhave been importations to Gordion from Corinth. 74 STYLE and chairs are as barbarous in tlieir way as the columns of temples would be withoutlines broken at a third of their height by great… … it the indorsement of use during several centuries. It is of interest, however, tosee that in the later related design represented in the fronti-spiece the two unpleasingfeatures ha\T been eliminated. Here the rail has a substantial width in keepingwith that of the supports, and the ornament of the…
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