拍品專文
This elaborate lit de repos was based on a fantastical design for a bed by Jean Le Pautre probably published about 1670 (illustrated in P. Thornton, Seventeenth-Century Interior Decoration in England, France and Holland, 1978, p.151, fig. 121). A lit de repos, also known in the 17th century as a lit de jour, played and important role in the etiquette of the day, as people received company in their beds. During the reign of Louis XIV, over 48 lits de repos appear in the inventories at Versailles. "Le cabinet où le Roy tint conseil" was equally furnished with a daybed upholstered in red velvet and another room [at Versailles] contained a daybed with "un dossier de sculpture persé à jour, au milieu duquel sont les chiffres du Roy et de la Reyne avec des dauphins et autres ornemens le tout doré argenté et peint", in short, with a decoration very similar to that found on this lot.