A MAGNIFICENT HUANGHUALI SIX-POSTER CANOPY BED, JIAZICHUANG QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY The rectangular bed frame is with a soft-mat seat set above a high waist and decorated with bamboo-form struts dividing panels carved with birds and beasts among flower branches. The curvilinear apron is carved in low relief with stylised scrolls and confronted chi dragons, supported on cabriole legs with animal-masks at the shoulder and terminating in claw-and-ball-feet. The four corner posts and two front posts are joined with horizontal openwork panels of three sections forming a lattice-work gallery. The lower pierced with stylised dragons, the middle reticulated with compound ruyi blooms and floral designs with chilong roundels, and the upper carved with begonia roundels, all below a top rail and canopy reticulated with birds and flower branches flanked by entwined chi dragons among scrolls. 91 in. (231 cm) high: 88 3/8 in (225.5 cm) wide; 61 1/2 in. (156.1 cm)
A MAGNIFICENT HUANGHUALI SIX-POSTER CANOPY BED, JIAZICHUANG QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY The rectangular bed frame is with a soft-mat seat set above a high waist and decorated with bamboo-form struts dividing panels carved with birds and beasts among flower branches. The curvilinear apron is carved in low relief with stylised scrolls and confronted chi dragons, supported on cabriole legs with animal-masks at the shoulder and terminating in claw-and-ball-feet. The four corner posts and two front posts are joined with horizontal openwork panels of three sections forming a lattice-work gallery. The lower pierced with stylised dragons, the middle reticulated with compound ruyi blooms and floral designs with chilong roundels, and the upper carved with begonia roundels, all below a top rail and canopy reticulated with birds and flower branches flanked by entwined chi dragons among scrolls. 91 in. (231 cm) high: 88 3/8 in (225.5 cm) wide; 61 1/2 in. (156.1 cm)
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