Furniture and Decorative Arts of Sri Lanka

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Title

Double bedstead

Subject

Furniture

Description

Large camp bed, with arched canopy, cane base, turned reeded posts, the head and foot boards formed of spindles, the former centred by shell motif, with massive, inverted, turned and gadrooned legs. RJ

Source

National Museum of Sri Lanka, Pettah

Date

1800-1849

Relation

Full size
Whole

Identifier

nmp25.25.400

FDASL Item Type Metadata

Period

1st half 19th century

Place of Creation

SW Sri Lanka

Measurements (H: W: L:)

210 x 222 x 65 cm. (82 7/10 x 87 2/5 x 25 3/5 in.)

Materials

Jakwood

Techniques

Carved and joined

Features

Four post canopy

Notes

Brohier, R.L., 1969, pl.II, fig.1. A related design for a 'camp bed' is found in Thomas Sheraton's 'Cabinet Dictionary' (1803), pl. 15.

Citation

"Double bedstead," online in Digital Library for International Research Archive, Item #1131, http://www.dlir.org/archive/items/show/1131 (accessed May 2, 2026).

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