. Indo-Aryans: contributions towards the elucidation of their ancient and mediaeval history. No. 100. [ 258 ]. far out. have the usual makara head terminals, and arc sup-ported by figures of rampantlions ; the fore ends of the arm-rests bend out laterally, andhave similar terminals and sup-ports, and the railing is lightand chaste. No. loi belongs toa different class, and resemblesa modern chair much moreclosely than the preceding. Itslegs are turned, carved, andfinished much more carefully,No. loi. the back and arm-rests are light and comfortable, and the whole has a modern lookabout it. No.
. Indo-Aryans: contributions towards the elucidation of their ancient and mediaeval history. No. 100. [ 258 ]. far out. have the usual makara head terminals, and arc sup-ported by figures of rampantlions ; the fore ends of the arm-rests bend out laterally, andhave similar terminals and sup-ports, and the railing is lightand chaste. No. loi belongs toa different class, and resemblesa modern chair much moreclosely than the preceding. Itslegs are turned, carved, andfinished much more carefully,No. loi. the back and arm-rests are light and comfortable, and the whole has a modern lookabout it. No. 102 looks like a dwarf chair;the construction of its reclining archedback is peculiar, and its seat is semicircularbehind, but in its construction there isvery little to indicate its old primitive cha-racter. The legs are particularly worth)-of notice. Joiners art seems to have madeSufficient progress at the time these chairs Xo. 102. were made, and that at the lowest computation about twothousand years ago, to enable the carpenters to fix the legswith sufficient firmness by tenon and mortise joints, to d
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