SAPFM Museum Furniture Collection

Valence for a bed (Lit à la duchesse en impériale)

Beauvais

Valence for a bed (Lit à la duchesse en impériale), Beauvais, ca. 1780–90, Silk and wool (20-25 warps per inch, 8-11 per cen…

Maker: Beauvais
Date: ca. 1780–90
Medium: Silk and wool (20-25 warps per inch, 8-11 per centimeter)
Dimensions: H. 19 × L. 70 in. (48.3 × 177.8 cm)
Form: Bed
Culture: French, Beauvais
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Accession: 23.235d
Credit line: Gift of Kingdon Gould, in memory of his mother, Edith Kingdon Gould, 1923

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