These Grecian-reeded curtain-poles are carved with addorsed elephant-heads emerging from roman-acanthus foliage at the outer ends and with acanthus-buds at the opposite ends. The poles are intended for a single drapery pelmet draped across two windows and a central pier-glass. They reflect the early 19th Century fashion illustrated in George Smith's Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1826. The elephant-head motif derived from antique candelabra and corresponds to an 'Antique cornice' pattern illustrated in James Arrowsmith's, Analysis of Drapery, 1819, pl X, fig. 1. Arrowsmith noted that such ends with their draperies 'may be used with effect in large Drawing Rooms, where light modern Cornices would not correspond with the other furniture, the heads may be of bronze, or burnished gold'. The curtain-poles would have formed part of the refurbishment of Nostell Priory, Yorkshire, carried out by Thomas Ward of Frith Street for Charles Winn, né Williamson (d. 1874), following his marriage to Priscilla Strickland in 1819.