An historical guide to French interiors, furniture, decoration, woodwork, & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth . oa; C/) Cu C/5 j^ oex c#bJO c C u c_bJO c/) a; Q I. Oil IS XIV DANIEL MAROT. Second I lalf 17th needlework, some with subjects,others with flowing ornamentor with armorial bearings. Thefour pillars of the beds wereoften covered with the same ma-terials as the bed ; sometimes withsilver sheet. A great many ofthese coverings were lined withsome other material. The fringeswer


An historical guide to French interiors, furniture, decoration, woodwork, & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth . oa; C/) Cu C/5 j^ oex c#bJO c C u c_bJO c/) a; Q I. Oil IS XIV DANIEL MAROT. Second I lalf 17th needlework, some with subjects,others with flowing ornamentor with armorial bearings. Thefour pillars of the beds wereoften covered with the same ma-terials as the bed ; sometimes withsilver sheet. A great many ofthese coverings were lined withsome other material. The fringeswere also an important was the custom in those daysfor people to receive their friendsin bed (as described underAbraham Bosse in an earlier partof this book), and for the kingsand other great personages to giveaudience while in bed, andthis, no doubt, was one of thecauses that led the bedstead to betreated so sumptuously. Someof the best bedsteads costalmost fabulous sums. Thefollowing are a few of the moreimportant bedsteads that were inuse about this time. There wasthe Lit a Alcove, which was abedstead placed in an alcove sothat it was separated from therest of the room. In someinstances it was on a platformwith balustrades in front betweentwo pillars. Part of the balus-trade would have a sort of gate


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