Coffin furniture, 18th century

Coffin furniture is indispensably associated with the culture of Sarmatian funerals, as an example of funeral art, showing the unique way of Polish nobility buried their dead at the turn of the 16th / 18th centuries. Sarmatian funerals, due to the characteristic splendour that accompanied them, were a feature that distinguished the Republic of Poland from other European countries, mainly during the Baroque and later. It is possible to describe a Sarmatian funeral as more like a performance than a ceremony.