拍品 306
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AN EARLY VICTORIAN MAHOGANY TESTER BED, the rounded rectangular canopy with fringed cotton pelmets on two turned supports, the head and foot each with padded rectangular panel, with cross-struts and mattress

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AN EARLY VICTORIAN MAHOGANY TESTER BED, the rounded rectangular canopy with fringed cotton pelmets on two turned supports, the head and foot each with padded rectangular panel, with cross-struts and mattress
83in. (211cm.) long, overall; 106in. (269cm.) high; 48in. (122cm.) deep

拍品專文

The only published pattern for a bed with this arrangement of posts is in the 1859 edition of Blackie's Cabinet-Maker's Assistant which showed a Gothic variant with tented canopy and curtains to one side (see: E.T. Joy, Pictorial Dictionary of British 19th Century Furniture Design, Woodbridge, 1977, p. 28)