Stump bed
Category
Furniture
Date
1750 - 1800
Materials
Oak, the headboard pine and covered in chintz
Measurements
118 x 98 cm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127598
Summary
An oak stump bed, 1750 - 1800, the headboard with posts topped by ball finials, the foot posts lower, and with tapering turned finials. On castors. The side rails notched and now with slats, but with remains of a nailed leather edge for a corded base. The headboard covered in printed cotton on blue flowers.
Provenance
The 1811 Hardwick Hall inventory lists, in the Hunting Stable bedroom, two oak stump bedsteads with headboards and rope bottoms. This may be one of them. By descent until, following the death of Edward William Spencer Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire (1895 - 1950), Hardwick Hall and its contents were accepted by HM Treasury in part payment of death duties and transferred to the National Trust, in 1959.
References
Gilbert 1991, Christopher Gilbert, English Vernacular Furniture 1750 - 1900, Yale 1991, illustrated p. 83, Plate 114