QING DYNASTY, 17TH-18TH CENTURY

The use of the daybed was manifold - during the day, it served as a sitting platform, and at night a bed. Compare to a waisted huanghuali daybed, formerly in the Heveningham Hall collection, later sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 28 May 2021, lot 2803.

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