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Couch Leg
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Elaborately carved wooden furniture leg, possibly for a couch, stool or table. It has a wide, flat foot below six thin torus shapes. The top, where it would have attached to a seat or tabletop, is narrow; below it is a carved bell or flower shape. The leg is curved and cracked, with a few chips missing from the raised decorative areas.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Said to come from the Valery collection (purchased 1947). [Uraeus Galerie d'Art et d;Archeologie Paris 1977] sold; to The Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection Department of the Classics Harvard University (1978-2012) transfer; to the Harvard Art Museums 2012.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Transfer from the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection Department of the Classics Harvard University
Title: Couch Leg
Description:
Elaborately carved wooden furniture leg, possibly for a couch, stool or table.
It has a wide, flat foot below six thin torus shapes.
The top, where it would have attached to a seat or tabletop, is narrow; below it is a carved bell or flower shape.
The leg is curved and cracked, with a few chips missing from the raised decorative areas.
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