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Chair - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06) The chair is of extreme antiquity, although for many centuries and indeed for thousands of years it was an appanage of state and dignity rather than an article of ordinary use. The legend that this was the curule chair of the senator Pudens is necessarily apocryphal. The majority of the chairs of all countries until the middle of the r 7th century were of oak without upholstery, and when it became customary to cushion them, leather was sometimes employed; subsequently velvet and silk were extensively used, and at a later period cheaper and often more durable materials. www.1911encyclopedia.org /Chair   (1951 words)

Seats and Chairs Taglines Associated with the chair are usually a variety of dental equipment, often including a small tap and sink for the patient to rinse his or her mouth. The chair of Maximian in the cathedral of Ravenna is believed to date from the middle of the 6th century. The majority of the chairs of all countries until the middle of the 17th century were of oak without upholstery, and when it became customary to cushion them, leather was sometimes employed; subsequently velvet and silk were extensively used, and at a later period cheaper and often more durable materials. creativeseats.com /all-about-chairs.html   (4590 words)

Curule - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06) In the Roman Republic, and later the empire, the curule chair (Latin, sella curulis) was the chair upon which senior magistrates or promagistrates owning imperium were entitled to sit including dictators, masters of the horse, consuls, praetors, and the curule aediles. In the latter Republic, Caesar the Dictator was entitled to sit upon a curule chair made of gold. The curule chair was traditionally made of ivory; with curved legs forming a wide X; it had no back, and low arms. www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Curule   (217 words)

Buy antiques, antique furniture, uk, antiques centre. The chair is of extreme antiquity, although for many centuries and indeed for thousands of years it was an article of state and dignity rather than an article of ordinary use. The curule chair was originally very similar in form to the modern folding chair, but eventually received a good deal of ornament. The legend that this was the curdle chair of the senator Pudens is necessarily apocryphal. www.hemswell-antiques.com /antique-chair.htm   (2120 words)

Chair - Gurupedia A chair is a piece of furniture consisting of a seat, legs, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person. Byzantium, like Greece and Rome, affected the curule form of chair, and in addition to lions’ heads and winged figures of Victory (or Nike) and dolphin-shaped arms used also the lyre-back which has been made familiar by the pseudo-classical revival of the end of the 18th century. The chair of Maximian in the cathedral of www.gurupedia.com /c/ch/chair.htm   (4874 words)

Definition of Curule from dictionary.net Antiq.) Of or pertaining to a kind of chair appropriated to Roman magistrates and dignitaries; pertaining to, having, or conferring, the right to sit in the curule chair; hence, official. Note: The curule chair was usually shaped like a camp stool, and provided with curved legs. Curule dignity right of sitting in the curule chair. www.dictionary.net /curule   (169 words)

Curule   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06) Sella Curulis The curule chair (sella curulis) was a significant symbol in Roman politics because of the authority it represented. Curule Aediles - Magistrates of the Curia - Aediles Curules The curule aediles were aediles responsible for the Roman games. The edicta of the curule aediles were founded on their authority as...p1015 The sella curulis appears from the first to have been ornamented with ivory, and this is commonly indicated by such expressions as curule ebur;...Adjective: curule kyûrool. curule.win-for-italy.info   (1192 words)

Chair Chair When members of the House of Commons and other debaters call out "Chair," they mean that the chairman is not properly supported, and his words not obeyed as they ought to be. A deck chair class="external">[1 is a folding chair with an extended seat that is meant to be used as a leg rest. Finland chaired the Zangger Committee in 1989-93 and the NSG in 1995-96 and is the chair of the MTCR until fall 2001. www.websters-dictionary-online.net /Ch/Chair.html   (7188 words)

The Kneelsit blog » Blog Archive » History of the Chair The chair did not come into common use in England until the 16th century, and even then an inventory in 1594 of the Great Chamber of Estate in Yorkshire records 28 stools and only one chair; the dining room had only stools and benches. In the Winchester Cathedral there is a curule-shaped chair which was used by Queen Mary in her marriage to Philip of Spain in 1554. In the middle of the 16th century chairs began to be upholstered. www.kneelsit.com /blog/?p=11   (676 words)

Italian Antique Chairs Antique chairs of the 15th and 16th centuries in Italy were, naturally, an important item in the Renaissance household, and during the sixteenth century they became fairly abundant. Curule chairs were designed based on a Roman model, in the form of a curved X, and were frequently constructed as a folding chair. Curule chairs became especially popular in Florence and Venice during the sixteenth century, where they were often made of Italian walnut, carved and sometimes gilded, and frequently furnished with a back and seat of stretched velvet or leather, or with a wooden seat upon which a cushion was placed. www.furniturestyles.net /european/italian/renaissance-chairs.html   (264 words)

Aedile - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06) The latter were called curule aediles (aediles curules) and they were considered curule magistrates. The plebeians accepted the offer, and accordingly two curule aediles were appointed--at first from the patricians alone, then from patricians and plebeians in turn, lastly, from either--at the Comitia Tributa under the presidency of the consul. Although not sacrosanct, they had the right of sitting in a curule chair and wore the distinctive toga praetexta. www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Aedile   (587 words)

The State Hermitage Museum: Virtual Tour The shape of this folding chair came down from Antiquity and was extensively used in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The crossed legs of the chair have a smoothly curved shape and are linked by cross-pieces for greater strength. In Ancient Rome chairs of this type were known as sedia curulis and were reserved for senior officials, the curule magistrates. www.hermitagemuseum.org /html_En/08/hm88_6_3_0_2.html   (111 words)

Copper on Wood Printing Plate Savonarola Chair c1920s - RL195.a320 Some suggest that the Roman 'sella curulis' chair with its curved X form is an ancient precursor of the Savonarola folding chair. For example, curule chairs became very popular in Florence and Venice in the late 15th and 16th centuries and were typically made of Italian walnut, carved and sometimes gilded. Savonarola had his portrait painted in one of these folding chairs and then years later was burned at the stake for heresy in 1498. www.rubylane.com /shops/docsantiques/item/RL195x2ea320   (862 words)

Curule   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06) chair does not have a back and can be folded up and opened. It has heavy curved legs and an upholstered seat and was customarily used by dictators, consuls, praetors, censors, and aediles. Because it was used by high Roman magistrates, it was a symbol of authority. www.romanrepublicancoins.com /Curule.html   (47 words)

Attributed to Duncan Phyfe: Side chair (60.4.4) | Object Page | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06) This chair and its nine mates are part of a set (60.4.1–60.4.15), including a sofa, two armchairs, and two footstools. Other chairs from the set are owned by the Museum of the City of New York and the Winterthur Museum. The curule shape, also known as the Grecian cross, is based on a Roman magistrate's folding chair and appeared in many early nineteenth-century design books. www.metmuseum.org /TOAH/hd/phla/hod_60.4.4.htm   (171 words)

Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Curule Chair. Properly a chariot chair, an ornamental camp-stool made of ivory placed by the Romans in a chariot for the chief magistrate when he went to attend the council. As dictators, consuls, prætors, censors, and the chief ediles occupied such a chair, they were termed curule magistrates or Horace calls the chair curule ebur (1 Epist., vi. www.bartleby.com /81/4516.html   (97 words)

Furia - NumisWiki, The Collaborative Numismatics Project These elegant denarii through the discovery of monetal deposits (hoards) are shown to belong to a time anterior to 686 (B.C. We observe accents employed in the abbreviation of words and an example of refinement in pronunciation such as this very word FURI being used instead of FOVRI (Riccio, 96-97). On the reverse, P FOVRIVS inscribed on the front of a curule chair. By the last word it is clear that from the thickness of the foot, this branch of the Furia gens derived its peculiar surname. www.forumancientcoins.com /numiswiki/view.asp?key=Furia   (425 words)

History of the chair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “The chair” is still extensively used as the emblem of authority in the British House of Commons and in public meetings. Before the Tang dynasty (618 - 907 AD), the predominant sitting positions in the Han Chinese culture and neighboring cultures such as the Korean Culture, Turkic Culture in Central Asia and Tai Kadai Cultures to the southwest were the seiza and lotus position on the floor or sitting mats. In the illustration, the symmetrical cusped and scrolling seatrails that flow into stubby cabriole legs of these comfortable low armchairs (chauffeuses) have their direct origins in Chinese lacquer tables (not chairs). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_the_chair   (2582 words)

The State Hermitage Museum: Virtual Tour Such chairs were used by the master of a household in the high Middle Ages and were placed either by the bed or in the centre of the table. Some of the relatively small folding chairs can also be dated to the mediaeval period. A French caquetoire chair illustrates the work of the Fontainebleau school, while some small chairs with carved backs that have an opening in their middles are examples of German furniture. www.hermitagemuseum.org /html_En/08/hm88_6_3_0.html   (280 words)

The Curule Chair - The Ipswich Woodworkers A particularly fine hand-crafted reproduction of an early 16th century English curule chair. Made to fold slightly, they were taken on military campaigns across the world, passing into the chairmaking traditions of medieval Europe. As the skills of early woodcraftsmen were available only to the wealthy, these chairs would indicate high military, civil or religious rank. www.btinternet.com /~philip.tyler/Furniture/curule.htm   (119 words)

curule chair definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta curule chair definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta Search for "curule chair" in all of MSN Encarta Roman official's chair: a folding chair with heavy legs and no back, used by high officials of ancient Rome encarta.msn.com /dictionary_1861688717/curule_chair.html   (74 words)

Inlaid Greek Revival Ebonized Chair, Savonarola - D862 This unique form is referred to as a Savonarola or Curule chair and was originally an Italian styling. The chair design allows you to lift and remove the back, whereby it can be folded. The ebonized chair has extensive inlay with what appears to be ivory. www.rubylane.com /shops/antiquesonhanover/item/D862   (212 words)

Specialty Items   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06) Renaissance Folding Stool This is the simpler and wooden version of the Roman magistrate's bronze or wrought iron curule chair, the "seat of power", from which he specified the edicts of Rome. All three of these chairs are approximmately 28"W x 24"D x 37"H. The chair on the left, with more and more ornate turnings we think of as our "great" chair for someone quite special. The triangular chair without arms, on the left, we call our "tavern" chair, as contemporary woodcuts and engraving shown it regularly in such an environment. www.masterjoyner.com /chairssto2.html   (533 words)

curule - OneLook Dictionary Search Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "curule" is defined. CURULE : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info] ) Of or pertaining to a kind of chair appropriated to Roman magistrates and dignitaries; pertaining to, having, or conferring, the right to sit in the curule chair; hence, official. www.onelook.com /?w=curule   (199 words)

Steven K. Metcalf - a Tulsa, Oklahoma (OK) Construction Law Lawyer Steven K. Metcalf received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Technology from Oklahoma State University in 1980 and was graduated with honors from the University of Tulsa College of Law in 1991. He served as Senior Editor and Staff Member of the Tulsa Law Journal, and is a member of the Order of the Curule Chair. Metcalf practices in all areas of  Construction Law, including construction contract drafting and negotiation, lien filings and foreclosure, construction contract and claims litigation, and suretyship law.  Mr. pview.findlaw.com /view/2535568_1?noconfirm=0   (186 words)

David R Sear: Glossary Of Frequently Encountered Terms In Roman Coin Descriptions Although occasionally shown on its own, it more commonly appears as an attribute of an allegorical personification. Curule chair a folding stool with curved legs, it was symbolic of the highest or 'curule' magistracies in Rome (consulship, praetorship, and curule aedileship). It was said to derive from the seat placed in the royal chariot from which the Etruscan kings dispensed justice. www.davidrsear.com /academy/roman_glossary.html   (3646 words)

Welcome to Moyers Martin - Biographies Larry Evans received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Illinois in 1970 and a Juris Doctorate degree from the Univesity of Tulsa College of Law in 1975. He is a member of Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity and Orde rof the Curule Chair and served as Associate Editor of the University of Tulsa Law Journal 1974-1975. He will be remembered for his love and loyal dedication to this firm, to his family, and to his wife of 61 years. moyersmartin.com /moyers_800/bios.html   (1902 words)

curule chair - Dollhouse Miniatures Forum As in the X-shaped chairs popular in Classical and Medieval times. I apprediate the helpful suggestions, the stool is close, if I can't figure the chair I'll go for it. The chair basically resembles that of a modern boat deck chair (or directors chair) with some curves. www.dhminiatures.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=1644   (440 words)

CSCP - CLC - Book 5 - Stage 37 A look at the Roman "Cursus Honorum", the course of honour, which was ladder of political advancement from quaestor to consul, which in the Republic conferred real power on the magistrates, but under the Empire was, in effect, symbolic. Silver denarius coin showing Titus and a curule chair with wreath. For local politics at Pompeii and associated election grafitti, see Stage 11. www.cambridgescp.com /page.php?p=clc^oa_book5^stage37   (875 words)

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