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A CEYLONESE EBONY FOUR-POST BED
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A CEYLONESE EBONY FOUR-POST BED

19TH CENTURY

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A CEYLONESE EBONY FOUR-POST BED
19th century
The arched later canopy covered with crimson cotton, above four reeded baluster posts, with turned baluster foot-rail and conforming head-rail with shaped reeded cresting centred by a shell, on turned baluster legs with domed feet, four bolts, eleven teak slats
78½in. (199.5cm.) high; 78in. (198cm.) long; 43½in. (110.5cm.) wide
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拍品专文

The bed has elegantly reeded and vase-baluster pillars, in the Pompeian or antique fashion popularised around 1800 by pattern-books issued by Thomas Sheraton; and as featured on the early 19th century 'Raffles' chair. The head-board's Venus-shell motif was also a popular motif adopted for furniture carved in Ceylon's Galle District. (J. Veenendaal, Furniture from Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India during the Dutch period, The Hague, 1985, p. 132, pl. 166; and A. Jaffer, Furniture from British India and Ceylon, London, 2001, nos. 192 and 186).