A FINE CHIPPENDALE MAHOGANY HIGH-POST BEDSTEAD

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A FINE CHIPPENDALE MAHOGANY HIGH-POST BEDSTEAD
NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND, 1760-1780

With turned tapering fluted footposts above a spiral-turned baluster, on turned tapering cylindrical legs with conforming spade feet, the tapering chamfered headposts centering a shaped headboard, with tester--82in. high

Lot Essay

The spiral-fluted vase turning on the footposts is similar to that on the Ellery-Dennis family bed illustrated in Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr., The Arts and Crafts of Newport, Rhode Island (Newport, 1954), p. 29, no. 3.