Bedstead part
Category
Furniture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood and cotton
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Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 937877.4.1
Summary
One of 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. Part of an incomplete four-poster bedstead.
Provenance
Stamford collection; devised to the National Trust by Roger Grey, 10th Earl of Stamford (1896-1976).