Egyptian Furniture: Egypt.—Egyptian Furniture sculpture we know w highly endowed with magical properties. F the ancient Egyptian Furniture the representation of an c ject stood for the object itself. This was ps ticularly important for the Egyptian Furniture credence a life after death. The Egyptian Furnitures believed that; aspect of the soul, called the ka, was a counte part of the body, that it was born with the bod continued through life with the body, that looked like the body, though invisible, and th at death they went together into the next worl It was essential to the everlasting life in tl hereafter that the likeness of the body be pr served.
Some of the early factories produced nearly all the standard furniture forms; others specialized in one or more, but whether their product was a full line or limited, it was sold in wholesale quantities to a new type of merchant, the retail furniture dealer. At first he referred to his establishment as a furniture or cabinet warehouse and later as a furniture store. If located in one of the larger cities he might also have his own factory but he was essentially a middle man and with his coming, direct contact between the maker and user of a piece of furniture ended. |
