Four Poster Canopy Bed, the Ultimate French “Lit Polonaise” Louis XVI Creme-Peinte Day Bed Spectacular! Designers Dream! Showhouse Ready

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Louis XVI-Style Creme-Peinte and Parcel-Gilt Lit à la Polonaise/Tester Bed.

This is an upholstered bed frame with draperies that are … Read more Louis XVI-Style Creme-Peinte and Parcel-Gilt Lit à la Polonaise/Tester Bed.

This is an upholstered bed frame with draperies that are upholstered as an essential part of the tester bed. Obviously the piece needs to be reupholstered to a designers and clients taste. Essential part is the gilt and fruitwood carved bed and metal frames. Custom cushion included as well as draperies. They can be shipped with the drapery and bed cover to be used as a template for new upholstery or shift without. Most designers would want them shipped together to use as a perfect fitting template

late 18-19th century, the bowed tester supported by scroll and columnar posts on guilloche-carved and fluted head and footboards with upholstered panels, both finished and upholstered on the front and back, together with a pair of matching bolsters and bed hanging. With guilloche carved arched top rails, stop-fluted frames and patera block angles, surmounted by an oval canopy with an egg-and-dart moulded and stop-fluted surround. A related Louis XVI giltwood lit a la polonaise was made for the Petit Trianon at the Chateau de Versailles.

h. 103", inside w. 43", l. 76", outside w. 47", l. 79" See less