Bed
Maple & Co. Ltd.
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1900
Materials
Oak, Textile
Place of origin
London
Collection
Gunby Hall Estate, Lincolnshire
NT 637280.2
Summary
The wooden furniture elements of an oak single bed, either made by or retailed by Maple & Co. Ltd. London, circa 1900. With a head and foot board each comprising three horizontal rails between which run friezes of upright rails, two solid panels and six rails to either side of central panels pierced with a lozenge, raised on square section legs. Maple & Co was one the largest and most successful British furniture retailers and cabinet makers established c.1870 in London.
Makers and roles
Maple & Co. Ltd., furniture supplier