Pollen, John Hungerford, 1820-1902 · [London] Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education, by Chapman and Hall · leaf 23
FURNITURE. 1 1 room at the British museum are seated. These are dated six, or nearly six, centuries before Christ. They represent chairs with backs, quite perpendicular in front and behind. The frame- pieces of the seats are morticed into the legs, and the mortices and tenons are accurately marked… … at first but rarely used. The woodcuts show the different forms taken from antique bas-reliefs. The chest or coffer in which Cypselus of Corinth had been concealed was seen by Pausanias in the temple of Olympia. It was made about the middle of the sixth century b.c. The chest was of cedar, carved…
Furniture · Woodwork
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