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the seat frame of mitre, mortise and tenon construction with the flat edge of the frame moulding downward and inward from about one-third way and ending in a beaded edge, the deep, curvilinear, beaded-edged apron ending with a C-scroll and mitred, mortised and tennoned into and half-lapped onto the legs, the legs carved with a C-scroll echoing that of the apron and double-tennoned to the underside of the mitred frame of the bed and capped at the feet with pads, the aprons further secured to the bed frame by wedge-shaped pegs, two on the long side and one on the short side, the seat of the bed composed of a removable mitred frame with a soft cane surface and palm-fibre rope underwebbing, supported by four curved transverse braces, two additional braces tennoned into the short sides of the frame and the transverse braces at the ends for further support, the removable bed seat resting on the bed frame, the frame with five curved transverse braces tenonned into the long sides of the frame, four structural uprights mortised and tennoned to the four corners of the bed frame and supporting the canopy, a mitred frame with two transverse braces on the long sides and a longitudinal one on the short sides, all further secured by woodpins, the underside of the canopy decorated with mitred, mortised and tennoned frames with beaded-edged panels with pierced stylised lingzhi motifs, seven panels on the long sides and four on the short sides, interrupted with mitred uprights, the frameworks double-tennoned into the uprights and the canopy, the one in front further supported by two posts tennoned to the seat frame of the bed, the seat surmounted by uprights mortised to openwork railings decorated with begonia shapes and crosses created by double-mitred members mortised and tennoned together, one long one in the back, two on the sides, and two square ones in front, the members above the bed-seat frame finished with butterfly corners