Bedstead
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1850
Materials
Stinkwood, cotton, metal bolts and curtain rail
Measurements
272 x 195 x 160 cm
Place of origin
South Africa
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Owletts, Kent
NT 1410979
Summary
A stinkwood bedstead, South African, circa 1850. With a moulded cornice and incised pendant frieze, supported by cluster-column posts, the lower swelling section carved with acanthus and raised on square legs carved with scales and standing on large hairy paw feet, fitted with a box spring mattress, iron rail for curtains and with a floral cotton head-board panel.