An historical guide to French interiors, furniture, decoration, woodwork & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth (1903)
Strange, Thomas Arthur · London, The author · leaf 146
mbeau was a bedin common use during the 17thcentury. It had a canopy carriedon four pillars. The two piUarsat the bottom of the bed wereshorter than those at the pillow-end, consequently the canopy orceiling of the bed sloped towardsthe foot. There were curtainson both sides which could belet down,…
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