Bedstead part
Category
Furniture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Mahogany, pine and metal
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Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 937877
Summary
Incomplete four-poster bedstead with: (a) two baluster turned mahogany foot posts, each with square section at the point at which the end and side rails are bolted to the post, tapering downwards to a narrower foot with additional moulding, and with a castor on the bottom. The posts have single bolt holes to receive end/side rails with one bolt at each end. There is a metal spike at the top of each post above an unpolished band which suggests there may have been a brass collar or similar at the top of each post which is now missing; (b) two plain, red-stained pine end rails with rebated inside edge to which there would have been a canvas mattress support tacked; (c) two square, tapering, red-stained pine head posts, each tapering downwards at the foot which has additional moulding above the metal castor. There is a metal spike at the top of each post and single bolt holes to receive end/side rails with one bolt at each end. Each post also has a fillet of wood with which to retain a headboard (not present) and post (a.ii) also features two hinged wood stays, to further keep the headboard in place; (d) two narrow wood top rails to fit on the head and foot posts, each with many small hooks from which to hang bed hangings, (d.i) covered in blue cotton which has been roughly hand-sewn, (d.ii) plain wood.
Provenance
Stamford collection; devised to the National Trust by Roger Grey, 10th Earl of Stamford (1896-1976).