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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY PARCEL-GILT AND EBONISED FOUR POST BED
The stepped rectangular spreading tester above three swan neck pediment sides surmounted by six foliate scrolls, and with leaf-filled trellis frieze, suspending blue silk frieze curtains, supported by reeded cluster columns on castors, with padded blue silk headboard, and further comprising a box spring, a mattress, two blue and white tie-back tassles, four oak side rails, six oak slatts, two further oak supports, two padded blue striped silk supports, lacking bolt-hole covers, one end bar with paper label inscribed '192', one side bar with paper label inscribed 'schedule no. 2 16.7.30', one of the oak posts inscribed indistinctly in chalk, 'Wilton' or 'Wiltan'
The stepped rectangular spreading tester above three swan neck pediment sides surmounted by six foliate scrolls, and with leaf-filled trellis frieze, suspending blue silk frieze curtains, supported by reeded cluster columns on castors, with padded blue silk headboard, and further comprising a box spring, a mattress, two blue and white tie-back tassles, four oak side rails, six oak slatts, two further oak supports, two padded blue striped silk supports, lacking bolt-hole covers, one end bar with paper label inscribed '192', one side bar with paper label inscribed 'schedule no. 2 16.7.30', one of the oak posts inscribed indistinctly in chalk, 'Wilton' or 'Wiltan'
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's London, 8 March 1985, lot 191.
Exhibited
On loan to the National Trust, Killerton House, Broadclyst, Exeter, pre 1985.
Sale room notice
The measurements for this lot are: 9ft 6 in. (290 cm.) high; 7ft (213 cm.) long; 6ft 1in. (186 cm.) wide.