There is little to help us to determine what was the style of domestic furniture in Rome, but it would appear that both in the Empire City and in Naples, the designs of everything of an ornamental character had developed from the antique Greek forms adopted by the early Romans; then to a mixture of Classic with Byzantine, and afterwards to Renaissance. The Museum specimens preserved to us of these early times, are such as show these changes. The chairs of Dagobert, of St. Peter in Rome, and, later, of the tripods, lamp-stands, bedsteads and couches from Pompeii, still in the museum of Naples, all corroborate this view, and one can only imagine that the more ordinary furniture followed similar lines in more modest and less costly materials and workmanship. Mosaic work in marble had been in vogue from the period of ancient Greek art, and there are many specimens in the Naples Museum. That particular kind of marble enrichment which we now recognize as Roman mosaic, differs from the Florentine variety, inasmuch as the design of the former is composed of infinitesimal portions of the material made into a pattern, the divisions between the tiny particles being so fine that they can only be noticed by the aid of a magnifying glass. In the Florentine work noticed presently, the design is made up of much larger pieces of marble, and is bolder and more effective. Both kinds of mosaic were applied to furniture.