Lot 127
127
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY FOUR-POSTER BED attributed to Gillows of Lancaster, the later rectangular canopy, William IV mahogany padded headboard and valance covered in pink and white striped material with rosettes, the front posts with beaded stiff-leaf capitals and reeded spreading columnar shafts, above a rosette and fluted collar and scrolled acanthus and stiff-leaf base with patera-mounted rectangular stepped plinth, the back posts each with stiff-leaf collar and scrolled acanthus baluster base, on spreading socle and square stepped plinth, the frame of oak, with fitted mattress and boxspring, adapted from two beds

Details
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY FOUR-POSTER BED attributed to Gillows of Lancaster, the later rectangular canopy, William IV mahogany padded headboard and valance covered in pink and white striped material with rosettes, the front posts with beaded stiff-leaf capitals and reeded spreading columnar shafts, above a rosette and fluted collar and scrolled acanthus and stiff-leaf base with patera-mounted rectangular stepped plinth, the back posts each with stiff-leaf collar and scrolled acanthus baluster base, on spreading socle and square stepped plinth, the frame of oak, with fitted mattress and boxspring, adapted from two beds
73in. (185.5cm.) wide; 108½in. (275.5cm.) high; 85½in. (217cm.) long
Provenance
Almost certainly supplied to Peter Brooke (d. 1783) or his wife Elizabeth (d. 1815)

Lot Essay

These richly carved bed-posts are designed in the George III 'antique' manner, such as feature in Thomas Malton's Compleat Treatise on Perspective, 1788 pl. xxxiv fig. 134. One pair is carved with reeded shafts springing from the flowered-and-fluted neckband of palm-and-acanthus-wrapped pedestals, the other with ribbon-guilloche neckbands. Now united with an early nineteenth century hollow-cornered panel, they originally formed part of two beds, supplied by Messrs. Gillows to Peter Brooke (d. 1783). The transformation is likely to have been carried out for Peter Langford Brooke (d. 1840) as the present bed can probably be identified with the 'Four post mahogany Bedstead', listed in the 1840 inventory in Chamber no. 6.

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