sentences:  In the noted artist Honoré Daumier's work "Emportez donc ca plus loin" an emancipated woman appears (illustrated within the work) in a lyre shaped chair by a cabriole leg desk at work while her husband minds the couple's child.In a further example in the "Irish Manor House Murder" reference is made to an expensive "Renaissance lyre chair" in the context of a very fine piece of furniture.In another instance the lyre chair design was used to evoke period opulence in a parlour scene of "The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories"; in that scene one of the characters sank into a lyre chair in the presence of other fine period furnishings including a Chippendale table.