Head post
Category
Furniture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Oak and metal
Measurements
2001 mm (Height)
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 937962.2.2
Summary
One of two square, tapering head posts with metal top spike, hooks on which to hand curtain rods and tack marks where textiles would have been attached. Both (a.ii) and (b.i) have a section cut out at the base to abutt/overlap skirting. Part of a single bedstead.
Provenance
Stamford collection; devised to the National Trust by Roger Grey, 10th Earl of Stamford (1896-1976).