Couch and footstool with bone carvings and glass inlays, 1st–2nd century


Couch and footstool with bone carvings and glass inlays, Imperial, 1st–2nd century , Roman, Wood, bone, glass, 41 1/2 × 30 × 84 1/2 in. ( × × cm), These pieces of furniture have been reassembled from fragments, some of which may come from the imperial villa of Lucius Verus (co-emperor, 161–169), on the Via Cassia outside Rome. It is not certain that the square glass panels are original to the bed frame and stool, but the carved bone inlays are paralleled on other Roman couches


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