low-posts

Updated: May 29, 2025

Portraits are interesting in a dining-room, or old prints, or paintings, and if you can get the old dull gold carved frames, so much the better. They may also be set in panels. The bedrooms may have either four-post canopy beds or low-posts beds. Chippendale's canopy beds had usually a carved cornice with the curtains hung from the inside.

Lucy Abbot Throop - Furnishing the Home of Good Taste : A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today