MID 19TH CENTURY, INCORPORATING PARTS OF AN EARLIER BED, THE CREWEL-WORK 18TH CENTURY

Details

AN IMPRESSIVE AND LARGE CREWEL-WORK AND PAINTED CANOPIED BED
Mid 19th century, incorporating parts of an earlier bed, the crewel-work 18th century
With suspended canopy and matching arched scrolling headboard and
footboard, the canopy valance worked with crewelwork and below a
painted cornice simulating crewelwork and surmounted by painted wood
scroll crestings, the interior of the canopy lined with an additional
worked silk valance below a central cartouche worked with needlework
and fringing surrounded by gadrooning and coved outer border, with
silkwork and crewelwork hangings behind the headboard, both head and
footboard embellished with silkwork, crewelwork and fringing, the
crewelwork incorporating trailing foliage, birds squirrels and figures, the headboard with a pair of parrots and centred with a beadwork
butterfly
120 in. (305 cm.) high as shown, but drapes not quite fully extended. 84 in. (213 cm.) long 68 in. (173 cm.) wide
The footboard 55 in. (140 cm.) high

Provenance

The Herrick Family of Beaumanor, Leicestershire and by descent
Christie's London, 19 September 2002, Lot 190

Literature

'Unique Bed at Temple Newsam', Leeds Art Calendar, no.8, pg 20-22

Exhibited

On loan to Temple Newsam House, Leeds
On loan to The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, Co. Durham

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Lot Essay

According to family tradition, the crewel-work elements of the bed were worked by three unmarried sisters of the Herrick family. The 18th century house at Beaumanor was destroyed or demolished in 1841 and replaced by a Jacobean style house. It seems probable that the bed in it's present form came into being during the 1840's. Beaumanor was a famous outstation of Bletchley Park in the Second World War and was sold by the family soon after 1945.

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