Roman chairs

[TITVS SABATINVS AQVILIVS]

Something more:

Two ivory diptych leaves, Constantinople, ca. 500 A.D. On left is a consular diptych leaf (Paris: Cab.des Med.) A traditional type, but here more plastic, solid, and refined. On right is a court diptych (London: Brit. Mus.), based on a Greek classical model. Well modled, subtle drapery, delicate architecture. These works illustrate the style and good technique employed in Constantinople at the time.



Ivory diptych leaf of Areobindus, Constantinople ca. 506 A.D. Areobindus was Consul in the East in 506 and the husband of Juliana Anicia. Below is a hunt in the Hippodrome.



On the right is the ivory diptych of Anastasius, Magister Militium and Consul in 517 A.D. Theodosian style. Hieratic and expressive, but technically refined. Anastasius, holding the mappa, presides over the Hippodrome games. Below are Amazons and tragic actors. Medallion portraits of Anastasius and Ariadne. (Paris, Cab. des Méd.)



Take a look to this greek firm: they make furniture for hortodox churches.

http://www.xilogliptiki.gr/en/home.html see bishops thrones...

Other images, I cannot scan now, show above all the presence of a rich canopy over the throne, that's often just a simple stool, rather than a rich throne at all.

Vale,