SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

Details

A CEYLONESE EBONY FOUR POSTER BED
SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
With arched tester, foliate carved spindle-tuned headboard on reeded inverted urn legs
73 in. (186 cm.) high; 84 in. (226 cm.) wide; 72 in. (180 cm.) deep

Special notice

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Lot Essay

A virtually identical 18th Century jackwood bed is in the Colombo Museum Collection.
R.L. Brohier, Furniture of the Dutch Period in Ceylon, 1993, pl. II, fig. 1.

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