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Studies in ancient furniture; couches and beds of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans (1905)

Williams, Caroline Ransom · Chicago : The University of Chicago Press · leaf 84

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tems of thevolutes (which arc cut off without finish by thelimits of the slab] is to be rationally explained only on the ground that the pattern is a section from acontinuous design running horizontally. C/. alsoOlympia, Furtwanoler, Vol. IV, Die Bronzen,Plate XLIII, Nos. 762-64, where, as also in… … 8o STYLE not of the type known as Ionic. The two commonest forms on furniture are shown inPlate I and Fig. 43. Both are in their prominent lines, exclusive of the abacus, thehalves of two donhle volutes lying adjacent and connected or not connected by a link,whereas the main lines of the Ionic…

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