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Four-poster bed Ornate Elizabethan four-poster bed Four-poster bed (lit à colonnes), 19th century, château de Compiègne, France. A four-poster bed or tester bed [1] is a bed with four vertical columns, one in each corner, that support a tester, or upper (usually rectangular) panel. This tester or panel will often have rails to allow curtains ...
The Great Bed of Ware is an extremely large oak four poster bed, carved with marquetry, that was originally housed in the White Hart Inn in Ware, England.Built by Hertfordshire carpenter Jonas Fosbrooke about 1590, the bed measures 3.38m long and 3.26m wide (ten by eleven feet) [2] and can "reputedly... accommodate at least four couples". [3]
It is a four-poster bed with each of the posts topped with a carved lion (one of which has lost his tail) each of which holds a shield emblazoned with a rose. [13] [15] The posts support a tester which depicts the tree of life growing from Christ's cross. [14] The frontispiece of the tester shows the arms of England and France quartered.
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1 Difference between canopy bed and four poster bed. 1 comment. 2 Language. 3 comments. 3 "Tester" part of definition unnecessary? 4 Modern references. 1 comment.
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