Couverture pour un lit (lit à la duchesse en impériale). Culture : français, Beauvais. Dimensions : hors tout : H. 85 × W. 65 in. (215,9 × 165,1 cm). Usine : tapisserie de Beauvais. Date : ca. 1780-90. Comme sa grande verrière bombée est suspendu au plafond au lieu de prise en charge sur les postes, ce testeur bed, qui porte le cachet de l'menuisier Georges Jacob, est un type appelé allumé à la duchesse en impériale. Ses toiles originales mais fragile maintenant, tissée en 1782-83 à la Manufacture de Tapisseries de Beauvais après conçoit par Jean-Baptiste Huet (1745-1811), ont été remplacés par de soie damassée moderne, à l'exception de fo

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Coverlet for a bed (Lit à la duchesse en impériale). Culture: French, Beauvais. Dimensions: Overall: H. 85 × W. 65 in. (215.9 × 165.1 cm). Factory: Tapestry made at Beauvais. Date: ca. 1780-90. As its full-size domed canopy is suspended from the ceiling rather than supported on posts, this tester bed, which bears the stamp of the menuisier Georges Jacob, is a type called lit à la duchesse en impériale. Its original but now fragile hangings, woven in 1782-83 at the Beauvais tapestry manufactory after designs by Jean-Baptiste Huet (1745-1811), have been replaced by modern silk damask, except for the lining of the interior dome. French eighteenth-century beds tended to be lofty, as it was customary to pile them with three or more mattresses filled with straw, wool, horsehair, or feathers. Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) noted in 1766, "French beds are so high, that sometimes one is obliged to mount them by the help of steps."[1] The custom of receiving visitors while reposing in a large and elegantly fitted out bed was practiced in France during the eighteenth century mostly by aristocratic women. The Museum's imposing piece of furniture with its exquisitely carved floral decoration, the work of an unknown carver, must have formed a splendid backdrop for such official calls or congratulatory visits. In 1791 the bed is documented as standing in the large bedchamber of Guyonne-Marguerite de Durfort de Lorge, duchesse de Choiseul-Praslin (1737-1806), at her Parisian home, the Hôtel de Belle Isle. Following the turmoil of the Revolution and the political changes of the early nineteenth century, the bed was sold in Paris in 1830. It became part of the famous collections at Hamilton Palace, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, the residence of Alexander Hamilton Douglas, tenth Duke of Hamilton (1767-1852), where it was placed in one of the state rooms. The duke's grandson sold the contents of the palace, including the bed, at a highly anticipated auction that took place in 1882. Throu

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