A Chinese Export Brown and Gold Lacquer Four-Post Canopy Bed
19th Century
Height 115 x length 89 x width 54 inches.
This lot is located in Chicago.

Provenance:
By repute, Brighton Pavilion
Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, The Collection of Walter P. Chrysler Jr., 6-7 May 1960, Lot 382
Supplied to Gregory Smith by McMillen Inc., New York, 17 May 1961
Sotheby's, New York, Mario Buatta: Prince of Interiors, 23 January 2020, Lot 636

The bed appears in overall fairly good, stable, and ready to place condition. There are varying areas of flaking loss to the lacquered decoration at the corner posts. Some of the scalloped leather trim is torn. One of the canopy corner joints has been previously repaired where it splintered. The bed is lacking its canopy upholstery and there are old nail holes where upholstery was previously attached. One of the boards is lacking a central pagoda and there is an old age crack to one board, just beneath the pagoda, previously repaired. There is an oval fracture on the opposite board where possibly a hole was previously cut. The bed can accommodate mattress: 48 x 75 inches.

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