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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]
A four poster bed is a bed with four posts, one in each corner, that support a tester. A hammock is a piece of suspended fabric or netting, used on ships and in some homes. A hideaway bed, invented by Sarah E. Goode in response to the needs of apartment-dwellers, folds up into another piece of furniture, such as a shelf or desk, when not in use.
The bed measures 9 feet (2.7 m) in height, 5 feet (1.5 m) in width and 6 feet (1.8 m) in length. [13] 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.
Baroque four-poster bed from the Château d'Effiat; c.1650; natural walnut, chiselled Genoa silk velvet and embroidered silks; 295 cm; Louvre [55] Baroque pier table; 1685–1690; carved, gessoed , and gilded wood, with a marble top; 83.6 × 128.6 × 71.6 cm; Art Institute of Chicago (US) [ 56 ]
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