Bedstead part
Category
Furniture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Oak, metal and canvas
Order this imageCollection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 937882
Summary
Child's oak four-poster bedstead consisting of: (a) two turned oak head posts, each with a square section at the point at which the headboard and end and side rails would be attached to the posts. Each post also has a fillet with which to retain the headboard, single bolt holes to receive end/side rails with one bolt at each end, and a metal top spike; (a.ii) is missing the top part of the post and therefore also the top spike; (b) two turned oak column foot posts, each with a square section at the point at which the end and side rails are bolted to the post, with single bolt holes to receive end/side rails with one bolt at each end, and with a metal top spike; (b.i) has had the top section of post removed; (c) two oak end rails, each with shaped under side and short length of canvas with rope holes tacked to a rebated inside edge.
Provenance
Stamford collection; devised to the National Trust by Roger Grey, 10th Earl of Stamford (1896-1976).