Single bedstead
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1820
Materials
Beech, Pine, Metal, Textile, Feather
Measurements
123 cm (Height); 203.5 cm (Length)
Place of origin
England
Collection
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127864
Summary
A painted beech and pine single bedstead, English, circa 1820, of 'French' type, the headboard and footboard of equal height and of turned posts topped by mushroom finials, with painted rectangular-section side rails supporting pine slats, all raised on turned legs and metal castors. All-over later cream-painted with decorative brown 'panel' lines and ring-turnings. Traces of earlier paint beneath. With two mattresses, one feather.
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.
References
Gilbert 1991, Christopher Gilbert, English Vernacular Furniture 1750 - 1900, Yale 1991, illustrated p. 85, Plate 117