#french bed

Plate 21

Sofa or French Bed The frame of this piece of furniture is of mahogany, the ornaments executed in metal gilt; the cushion, bolsters, and ends, are covered with white satin; the outsides of the ends in blue, to suit the drapery suspended over the couch, having ornaments in gold-coloured velvet placed on them: a gold-coloured silk fringe is fixed on the scrolls. Over the couch is suspended a canopy, composed of ornamented gold moldings, a Vitrurian scroll occupying the frieze. The whole of these are carved in wood, and gilt, after the manner of our moulu, the ground being of blue velvet. A dome, composed of bold quilling, and covered with blue satin, surmounted with a coronet, carved and gilt, terminates the whole.