Studies in ancient furniture; couches and beds of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans (1905)
Williams, Caroline Ransom · Chicago : The University of Chicago Press · leaf 87
ower {cj.Figs. 14 and 50). The number of such monuments is small, but we are neverthe-less better off for the study of this type of couch than of any other of classicalantiquity, by reason of the two extensive series of extant specimens; the more import-ant series is of bronze, the second is of… … FlG. 44.—Dionysus and Ariadne riding a mule- Red-figured vase-painLing.—St. Petersburg. able that a medallion, fitting as it does into the curves of a volute, was the first stepin elaborating the original design. Perhaps the date of the introduction of themotive of an animals head looking sideways…
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