Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Furnishings (hierarchy name)
5. furnishings (works)
6. [furnishings by form or function]
7. furniture
8. [furniture by form or function]
9. [sleeping and reclining furniture]
10. beds (furniture)
11. high-post beds
12. tester beds

Anotations

Scope note:

Beds having dome-shaped testers supported by rods, often of iron, curving up from the corners of the head boards, with the rods being hidden by the bed hangings. Developed in the 18th century, such beds were often meant to stand in a deep niche in the bedroom of the main apartment of a palace or mansion. In other installations, the bed are often placed with one side lengthwise flush against a wall.