Tyiin turned in a chair carved to look like gilded bamboo and stared at him over her golden winecup.

She was sitting in a huge, heavy Jacobean chair with gargoyles' heads carved at the end of each arm.

A long dining table, chairs, buffets and other items carefully carved from dark mahogany furnished the room.

The chair itself, carved with snakes and doomed souls.

"A chair carved with lions gave the nobleman who sat in it the aura of a lion," she said.

A wooden chair made and decoratively carved by Rákóczi himself can be seen also in this room.

Henry Morgan sat in a tall chair carved in the likeness of many serpents.

The great chair, heavy and ornately carved, sat with its back near the window.

In Holland, chairs had high backs, elaborately carved and pierced.

Behind the warriors appeared six large, carved wooden chairs, each apparently floating along in midair several feet above the ground.