A CLASSICAL CARVED MAHOGANY AND ORMOLU WALL BEDSTEAD

With one side placed against the wall and the hangings attached to the bed crown, this form of bed completely enclosed the occupant and provided the same coverage as four-poster beds. For a similar example attributed to Charles-Honoré Lannuier in the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum, see Wendy Cooper, Classical Taste in America: 1800-1840 (Baltimore, 1993), p. 131, no. 90.