field-beds

Updated: July 16, 2025

Partly, perhaps, because the famous Peacock Throne of Shah Jehan stood in the Palace here. I cannot resist giving the description of it in the words of Tavernier, who saw it about 1655, and who describes it as follows: "This is the largest throne; it is in form like one of our field-beds, six foot long and four broad.

T. R. Swinburne - A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil