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拍品专文
Canopy beds have either six or four posts. It was common to use drapery to create a private world within a closed curtain, and examples can be seen in Ming and Qing woodblock prints. The openwork design of geometric motifs on the surrounding panels is similar to that of window panels, see the Ming-dynasty publication Yuan Ye, The Garden Treatise, by Ji Cheng dated to 1631. Such design can maximise the aesthetics while utilising only small sections of the expensive material huanghuali. The design of four ruyi scrolls forming an enclosed pattern is also found on a four-poster bed with circular entrance in the Palace Museum collection, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 53 - Furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (I), Hong Kong, 2002, pp. 2-5, no. 1. Also see another six-poster huanghuali canopy bed, ibid., pp. 6-9, no. 2, with design of wan emblems on the surrounding panels.