A daybed Brazilian rosewood with carvings carved headboard "Cross of Christ seated upon a crowned double-head eagle", embossed leather bed platform with studs Portuguese 17th/18th C. leather defects, small restoration, minor faults and defects Dimensões (altura x comprimento x largura) - 120,5 x 190 x 86 cm Notes: "«Preguiceiro», «espreguiceiro», «espreguiçadeira» or even «camilha de couro» are names for this piece of furniture, intended for daytime rest. A large chaise longue, characteristic of a sunny country and an era when men of the privileged classes led a leisurely life and could afford lazy naps... Although its roots are distant (even in Ancient Egypt, beds for nighttime were distinguished from those used for daytime rest), and the oriental «cama de siesta» was much appreciated by Europeans, the espreguiceiro is a national creation, which Bluteau in the cited work identifies as a «wide and long bench for sleeping during a nap». They can be magnificent pieces of furniture - like this one - but markedly masculine, always giving a sense of austerity, partly due to the usual dark wood and leather. They are very far from the amiable and feminine French lits de repos: Different habits, a different mentality, and customs of the society in which one is embedded. vd. FREIRE, Fernanda Castro - "Mobiliário - volume I". Lisbon: Ricardo do Espírito Santo Silva Foundation, 2001, p. 62.