NEW YORK, CIRCA 1815

Details

A CLASSICAL CARVED MAHOGANY AND ORMOLU WALL BEDSTEAD
NEW YORK, CIRCA 1815
117 in. high, 88 ½ in. wide, 62 in. deep

Provenance

Sumpter Priddy, Richmond, Virginia
Israel Sack, Inc., New York

Literature

Tom Armstrong, Amy Coes, Ella Foshay, and Wendell Garrett, An American Odyssey: The Warner Collection of Fine and Decorative Arts (New York, 2001), pp. 25, 204-205.

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Sale room notice

Please note the dimensions of this lot have been updated to 117 in. high, 88 ½ in. wide, 62 in. deep.

Lot Essay

With one side placed against the wall and the hangings attached to the bed crown, this form of bed completely enclosed the occupant and provided the same coverage as four-poster beds. For a similar example attributed to Charles-Honoré Lannuier in the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum, see Wendy Cooper, Classical Taste in America: 1800-1840 (Baltimore, 1993), p. 131, no. 90.

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