Couches and beds of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans (1905)
Williams, Caroline Ransom · Chicago : University of Chicago Press · leaf 54
of Ijlocks of wood rather than of planks; these are the turned forms. Side by side with plank constructions from the earliest period are beds which show the use of the lathe. ddie design given in Fig. 28 is portrayed in vase-paintings, fortunately in both end- and side-views. The legs arc turned… … the posts, and two side-pieces of concave curve which are mortised above into the cross-rail of the head-rest and below into the side-rails of the bed; (3) within this frame a curved filling which consists perhaps of a number of slats of wood close together, mortised into the uprights at each side,…
Furniture, Ancient · Beds · Seating (Furniture)
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