'The Yatman', a half-tester bed, designed by William Burges, the walnut panelled footboard and framework surmounted by an elaborate and ebonized frieze and dentillated cornice, inset with panels of polychrome marble, covered and hung with original fabric, the bedspread with "Y" monograms, with retractable casters

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'The Yatman', a half-tester bed, designed by William Burges, the walnut panelled footboard and framework surmounted by an elaborate and ebonized frieze and dentillated cornice, inset with panels of polychrome marble, covered and hung with original fabric, the bedspread with "Y" monograms, with retractable casters
256cm. high; 157.5cm. wide; 193cm. long

Literature

J. Mordaunt Crook, William Burges and the High Victorian Dream, 1981, pp.225, 295

Lot Essay

In 1858 Burges designed an entire suite of bedroom furniture, including the above lot, as a wedding present for his friend and patron the Reverend J.A. Yatman of Winscombe, on the occasion of his marriage to Anna Turner. The "Yatman Suite" represents the summation of Burges' early oeuvre in the Jacobean manner, the same year saw the appearance of a more painterly style of decoration in a commission from the deacon's brother H.G. Yatman

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