Details
A FEDERAL CARVED MAHOGANY BEDSTEAD
VIRGINIA OR MARYLAND, 1790-1810
The cylindrical grooved, flared and ring-turned headposts centering an arched, peaked and serpentine shaped headboard, the footposts embellished with tobacco leaf carving above a reeded shaft, over wheat-carved urns with a stippled background and carved tobacco leaves above another urn decorated with rope carving, rosettes, swags, and leaf carving on a stippled background, above cylindrical turned legs--96in. high, 67 1/2in. wide, 84in. long
VIRGINIA OR MARYLAND, 1790-1810
The cylindrical grooved, flared and ring-turned headposts centering an arched, peaked and serpentine shaped headboard, the footposts embellished with tobacco leaf carving above a reeded shaft, over wheat-carved urns with a stippled background and carved tobacco leaves above another urn decorated with rope carving, rosettes, swags, and leaf carving on a stippled background, above cylindrical turned legs--96in. high, 67 1/2in. wide, 84in. long
Provenance
Christie's, New York, The Contents of Craig and Tarlton, Inc.,
November 5 and 6, 1985, Lot 105.
November 5 and 6, 1985, Lot 105.