An oak and inlaid half-tester bed, English, constructed from 16th and 17th century elements
Date
Unknown
Materials
Oak, inlays, ebonised mouldings, textile
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire
NT 342658
Summary
An oak and inlaid half-tester bed, English, constructed from 16th and 17th century elements. The tall headboard with a pair of recessed upper panels geometrically-inlaid and with central diamond-shaped bosses, all within a dog-tooth chequer frame, above a row of three arcaded panels applied with ebonised split-mouldings and with further plain panels below, the short half-tester decorated with diamond motifs and drop finials, all below a dentil-moulded cornice, the bed raised on bulbous turned feet.
Provenance
Acquired by Lady Chatterton from an inn at Appledore in Kent. According to legend the timber had come from a Spanish galleon, one of the Armada fleet wrecked on the Kent coast in 1588.