The wooden frame and end board of one of the dining couches just mentioned was completely charred, but the form was clearly indicated, and the woodwork has been restored ([Fig. 188]). The couch is now in the Naples Museum, as are also the other articles of furniture illustrated in this chapter.
The half figures on the front of the end board, shown more plainly in the detail at the left of the illustration, were cast; the rest of the mounting was repoussé work. The bronze on the side toward the table was inlaid with silver. The end boards were placed at the head of the upper couch and the foot of the lower one ([p. 263]); the middle couch did not have a raised end. The mattress rested on straps stretched across the frame. The dining room in which the couches were found adjoins the tablinum of a house in the seventh Region (VII. ii. 18).
Fig. 190.—Carved table leg, found in the second peristyle of the house of the Faun.
The carved marble supports of a gartibulum are shown in [Fig. 121]; a complete table of a plainer type is seen in [Plate VII]. An example of a round marble table, found in 1827 in a house near the Forum, is presented in [Fig. 189]. The three legs are carved to represent those of lions, a lion's head being placed at the top of each. A table of similar design was found in the peristyle of the house of the Vettii, with traces of yellow color on the manes of the lions ([p. 326]).
Among the best examples of ornamental carving is the marble table leg in the form of a sphinx, found in the second peristyle of the house of the Faun ([Fig. 190]). Effective also is the bold carving of the gartibulum in the north atrium of the house of Siricus (VII. i. 25).
Fig. 191.—Bronze stand with an ornamented rim around the top.