18th C Italian Canopy Bed with 17th C Textiles Museum Quality

A Baroque four-poster bed (ceiling), with headboard. The headboard, decorated with boned shaped, shakes and strings, are turned into bobbin-shaped discs and balls in the sides and th...

An 18th-century Rosewood tester/canopy bed originating from a significant palace in Goa. The bed features exquisitely carved posts, and the solid wood headboard contributes a blend o...

Fine Sculpted Queen Bed Portuguese 17th/18th C. Jacaranda Wood torsade Posts , detailed with a Outstanding Torsade Posts Dimensions: Height” 80” Depth 81” Width: 64” More queen , less king, Deep attention to details with various Scrolls the perfect bed for a Grand bedroom fit for a palace room. An incredible find for your interior design and to elevate your home Bedroom , master bedroom. The workmanship is impeccable and apparent in the hand carving throughout this master piece. A unique imposing piece of Art to acquire, a conversation piece and a show piece all at the same time With A magnificent height of the bed that stands at 6Feet 8 Inches Tall. A Baroque bed richly carved with leaves foliage and plants and shell motifs. Signs of the centuries as seen in the pictures, cracks losses strong old restorations etc. ... overall good condition. Rare antique with intricate carvings throughout. with interwoven floral designs foliage and plants, crests shells motifs and flambeau with detailed long hand turned profusely mounted with spiral-twist spindles carved with spiral moldings. An incredible find Extremely fine Sculpted Colonial Portuguese 17th/18th Century Jacaranda Bed...

This large and attractive architectural piece is known as a pulpit canopy. Before the advent of microphones and speakers, orators would often address assemblies from elevated platforms known as “wine glass pulpits”. These podiums featured domed roofs called abat-voix, sometimes known as sounding boards, that would project sound outwards. Our walnut wood pulpit canopy is a fine example of such a device. Hand-carved and hand-painted in Italy in the 1700’s, our abat-voix is roughly octagonal in shape. Each of the sides have edges with luxuriously thick step molding, alternating between stained and gilded wood. Each of the corner cornices are adorned with gilded flower carvings, although some are missing. The interior of the canopy features a gilded open sun with sinuous rays emanating all around. Each of the sides are adorned with foliate margents surrounded by scrolls, again with some losses. All the edges are bordered with a thin layer of gilding. Although our fascinating 18th century Italian walnut pulpit canopy was designed for a church pulpit...