Canopy bedstead
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1750
Materials
Oak
Measurements
196 x 203 x 152.5 cm
Place of origin
Flanders
Order this imageCollection
Lindisfarne Castle, Northumberland
NT 511530
Summary
A carved oak canopy bed, Flanders, circa 1750. The head-board and foot-board both carved in low relief with scrolling circles and cut corners to the three fielded panels, the head-board with sliding cupboard door panels and the foot-board with hinged lidded compartment bearing strap-work hinges shaped as tulips, the roof with fret-carved arched friezes and supported on baluster columns.