Pollen, John Hungerford, 1820-1902 · [London] Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education, by Chapman and Hall · leaf 19
ng to Mr. Layard, the chair represented in the earliest monuments is without a back, and the legs tastefully carved. This form occurs in the palace of Nimrud, and is sculptured on one of the bas- reliefs now in the British mu- seum. Often the legs ended in the feet of a lion or the hoofs of a bull,… … arms, probably in the same position as the horses in the Khorsa- bad chair ; and lions of gold or chryselephantine work stood , six on each side on the six steps before the throne.
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