AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
The Chipstone Chair of the Restoration Period
The turned ornamentation on the chair back is unusual. Along the top edge there is a simple arcade of seven little rounded arches, almost like an arcade on a romanesque monastery. The 13 carved rosettes seem to be in some kind of special configuration. And that configuration mimics alchemical drawings such as the illustration in robert flood's book of the circle of urinary colors.