Wooden canopy bed with paper lining, with silk curtains
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
Canopy bed, made of wood and pasteboard, equipped with curtains of silk and corner decorations of silk and feathers. The bed consists of four red-lacquered round corner posts, between which a frame of yellow-lacquered pasteboard, decorated with light yellow bands and black dots with raised head and foot end with a railing with bars and pointed decorations and a canopy crown with the same hanging decorations. The railing is brightly pink on the inside, the mattress box, canopy inside, and legs are colored purple. The flat canopy consists of a slightly overhanging square plate of pasteboard, covered on the outside with light blue paper with gold ornaments (painted or printed?). On the canopy stand four corner ornaments, made of multicolored frayed floss silk (light blue, pink and white) and upright feathers, bound together by a metal wire around a twisted wooden core, glued to the canopy.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description