Nobleman reclining on a Byzantine bed of the 9th century (from an illuminated manuscript in the Bibliotheque Royale). The bed frame is decorated with a mosaic of precious stones. Lit Grec du IXe Siecle (Bibli. Roy). Handcoloured lithograph by Villain after an illustration by Horace de Viel-Castel from his Collection des costumes, armes et meubles pour servir à l'histoire de la France (Collection of costumes, weapons and furniture to be used in the history of France), Treuttel & Wurtz, Bossange, 1827.

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