NAPOLEON III GILT, FLORAL TOLE-DECORATED, AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL-APPLIED CAST IRON TESTER BED. Eight-section pagoda style canopy with gilt metal crown. Headboard and footboard with inset metal panel. Cast scrolling leafy vines with flower-heads enameled in red, green and yellow.Elaborate repousse gilt and polychrome enameled high posts. - 110 in. x 82 in. x 70 in.
PROVENANCE: Estate of Psychic Jeane Dixon, Washington, DC
Estimate $3,000-5,000
PROVENANCE: According to the Jeane Dixon Museum and Library, Strasburg, VA, Jeane Dixon maintainted that this bed originally belonged to Empress Eugénie of France, wife of Napoleon III,
Patinated metal with some scattered tiny paint and gilt losses from use.
