End rail
Category
Furniture
Date
1780 - 1810
Materials
Oak, metal and canvas
Measurements
74 mm (Width) x 92 mm (Depth); 887 mm (Length); 920 mm (Length); 150 mm (Length)
Order this imageCollection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 930923.4.1
Summary
One of two end rails, each with a bolt at either end, .i with short length of striped canvas with rope holes tacked along length of rail; .ii with long length of striped canvas with centre seam tacked along centre of rail. Part of a single fourposter bed.
Provenance
Stamford collection; devised to the National Trust by Roger Grey, 10th Earl of Stamford (1896-1976).