An Italian painted and faux marbre carved double bed late 16th /early 17th century

with a cresting carved with a scrolled boss flanked by fruit-filled stylised cornucopiae above an arcaded headboard, the uprights surmounted by a stylised pinecone finial, the side-rails painted to resemble faux marbre, the footboard with posts surmounted by pinecone finials on gadrooned bulbous feet; painting refreshed

Some minor retouching to painting and gilding. Restorations to cresting which has been strengthened at the back. The arcaded section could well be later replacement. Old minor restorations generally. In overall good conserved condition.
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Comparative Literature:
S. Colombo, L'Arte del legno e del mobile in Italia, Bramante,  Torino,1981.
Frida Schottmüller, Wohnungskultur und Mðbel der Italienischen Renaissance, Stuttgart,1921, p. 127, figs. 276-277, for a bed conceived in a similar vein with an arcaded headboard and posts surmounted by pinecone finials, formerly in the Palazzo Davanzati, Florence, reproduced here in fig. 1. Also see a related painted bed with an arcaded headboard, second half 16th century, in Castel Sant' Angelo, Rome, illustrated by Colombo op. cit.,plate 275, reproduced here in fig. 2.