Head post
Category
Furniture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Oak (?) and metal
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 937967.1
Summary
Pair of square, tapering, oak head posts, each with hooks on which to hang curtain rods (top metal spikes missing), and a fillet with which to retain the headboard; (.i) incised 'VIII', part of an incomplete bedstead.
Provenance
Stamford collection; devised to the National Trust by Roger Grey, 10th Earl of Stamford (1896-1976).