Chinese Wedding Bed with Canopy & 4 Mirror Insert Panels

A walk-in bed with mirrors, lattice screens and a carved cornice overhead.

This wedding bed with canopy & 4 mirror insert panels is from Hebei Province, China, and dates to the 19th century. It is rosewood. 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. Large canopy bed in warm reddish brown with carved relief panels across the top. Pillars hold small mirror panels, and geometric lattice fills the sides and low rails. A plain platform fills the interior and the base is molded. It is 93 inches long, 111 deep and 100 high.

Architecture with room enough to nap in.