Bedstead part
Category
Furniture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Oak, wood, canvas and metal
Order this imageCollection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 937878
Summary
End section of a four-poster bedstead with: (a) two turned oak column bed posts, each with square lower section on tall round feet, single bolt holes to receive end/side rails with one bolt at each end, and with two slots in the inside edge in which to fit a head/footboard. Each post also has a metal spike at the top and two square hooks from which to suspend curtain rods; (b) stained wood end rail with five bolt holes running along its length (only one bolt present), bevelled lower inside edge and rebated top inside edge to which is tacked a short length of brown and cream striped canvas with rope holes (narrower at the loose end than the end that is tacked to the end rail).
Provenance
Stamford collection; devised to the National Trust by Roger Grey, 10th Earl of Stamford (1896-1976).