Stump bed
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1750 - 1800
Materials
Oak, ash, beech, pine
Measurements
121 x 100 x 10 cm
Place of origin
Great Britain
Collection
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127600
Summary
An oak, ash and pine stump bedstead, English, circa 1750-1800. The headboard of pine between turned oak or ash posts topped by ball finials. The footboard lower. With wooden castors. The side rails notched for slats.
Provenance
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.