Chinese Day Bed with Canopy

Four-post canopy bed with a lacework cornice and enough carving to need its own porch.

This day bed with canopy is from Shanxi Province, China, and dates to the mid 19th century. It is gilded & lacquered elm wood. As original period furniture became harder to find, restoration artists began salvaging fragments from incomplete pieces to make complete ones, and eventually full reproductions began to surface. Rectangular frame with slender posts carrying a deep, intricately carved valance and a narrow ridged top edge. Latticed side panels enclose the sleeping platform, which sits on a shaped stand with curled feet. Dark red-brown with gilded touches. It is 87 inches long, 75 deep and 95 high.

A bedroom inside a bedroom, with ornamentation to spare.