20th C Chippendale Antique Style Mahogany King Size Rice Carved Plantation Bed

Bay Colony Antiques is proud to offer for sale this exceptional 20th century Chippendale antique style king size rice carved Mahogany bed. We couldn’t locate a maker's mark on this but it’s extremely high quality and undoubtedly cost a small fortune new. The bed can be completely taken apart breaking into 10 separate pieces (4 posts, 4 rails, 1 center rail, 1 headboard). The finials & the upper sections of the posts right after the reed carvings can also be removed. The bed has collared block feet and a lambs tongue carving above the rails aiding the eyes transition to the first series of carvings. Rice was a staple of an early American diet and immense fortunes were made cultivating it, even more so than Tobacco or Cotton. It’s much more common to find rice carved beds with the sheafs of rice more spaced out so we wanted to point out this different stylized design. Traditionally these beds have Rice & Tobacco carvings but the carvings above the rice don’t really look like Toba