Lot 191
191
A CHIPPENDALE PAINTED HIGH-POST BEDSTEAD

ATTRIBUTED TO TIMOTHY CARLL, HUNTINGTON, LONG ISLAND, 1770-1790

Details
A CHIPPENDALE PAINTED HIGH-POST BEDSTEAD
attributed to timothy carll, huntington, long island, 1770-1790
With chamfered headposts and footposts surmounted by a tester and centering a molded headboard, on chamfered square legs, with original blue paint
75in. high, 75in. wide, 50½in. deep
Provenance
Timothy Carll, Huntington, New York
Thence by descent in the Platt-Carll Family, Dix Hills, Long Island, New York
Sold at auction Cantine Kilpatrick, The H.P. Carll Dairy Farm, Dix Hills, New York, July 28, 1984

Lot Essay

Family tradition states that Timothy Carll was the original owner and possibly maker of this bedstead. Various members of the Carll family and the Platt family, with whom they intermarried, were woodworkers. For further discussion on the Carll and Platt families, see Dean F. Failey, Long Island Is My Nation (New York, 1976)p. 227, 252, and 271.