Fancy Footwork: Furniture Patterns Going to and from Gandhāra

Abstract This paper is the first assessment of different sources and shapes in a selection Gandhāran furniture. Two main types furniture legs are discussed. These thought to be originally wooden attached chairs, stools, beds that depicted Kushan sculpture from Gandhāran. The two defined by their decoration. type geometric, lathe-turned leg, second leg carved, not depicts figures. foreign origins both traced analyzed. A list, plus illustrations reliefs showing representative contexts for each type, given. Several heretofore unpublished included. In some cases examples can interpreted as well developments into Central Asian types.