Details

A NORTH ITALIAN NEOCLASSIC PARCEL-GILT AND BLUE-PAINTED BED The ends late 18th Century, side rails and canopy of a later date With a husk-carved and ribbon-twisted frame, the rectangular padded head and foot boards covered in 18th Century blue floral silk above a panel of foliate rinceaux centering alternating sunflowers and rosettes, with similarly-carved siderails, on tapering fluted legs with recessed wooden casters, with a bowed leaf-tip-carved canopy covered in similar silk, redecorated 74in. (188cm.) long

Provenance

Henry Clay Frick, Fifth Avenue, New York