Untitled
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1570 (and later)
Materials
Oak, Poplar, Holly [ilex sp], Chintz
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Sizergh Castle, Cumbria
NT 998027.2
Summary
The wooden furniture elements of an oak and inlaid tester bed, English, 16th century and later, with parts - particularly its inlay - lacking.
Full description
This bed - which appears to have been altered - is reminiscent of the paneling to the Inlaid Chamber, and the bed which stands in that room [NT 997761]. Only the scrolls which form ears to the headboard link it to the woodwork and furniture made for Sizergh in the 1560s, and so it's 16th century parts probably date from the 1570s or 1580s, when the inlaid paneling and bed are thought to have been made. However, there are some turned beds mentioned in the inventory of 1569, taken when Walter Strickland died. Thus, 'a throwen [turned] bed of woodd' is listed 'In the lords chamber'; another is in 'the chamber where Thomas Proctar lyes'; a third 'in the inarmer chamber in ye hye towar'; a fourth 'in the next chamber to yt in the hye towar'; another in 'the outer house in the midle tower' and a sixth in 'the chamber where Mr Tempest lyes'. (Megan Wheeler, 2016)
References
Goodall, 2002: Ian Goodall. “Privacy, display and over extension: Walter Strickland’s rebuilding of Sizergh.” Antiquaries Journal 82 (2002): pp.197-245. [Raine, 1853] James Raine, Wills and Inventories from the Registry of the Archdeaconry of Richmond (1853), pp. 220 - 1