An oak and beech bedstead, the headboard with twin baluster-turned gallery surmounted by a foliate carved top-rail flanked by turned and block uprights carved with putti and lion masks, surmounted by ball finials, the footboard with spiral-twist column gallery flanked by similar uprights with ball finials, on turned legs, stamped S beneath a coronet, with later pine mattress holder, English, part 17th century -- 60in. (153cm.) wide.

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An oak and beech bedstead, the headboard with twin baluster-turned gallery surmounted by a foliate carved top-rail flanked by turned and block uprights carved with putti and lion masks, surmounted by ball finials, the footboard with spiral-twist column gallery flanked by similar uprights with ball finials, on turned legs, stamped S beneath a coronet, with later pine mattress holder, English, part 17th century -- 60in. (153cm.) wide.
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Provenance..
Reputedly Hatfield House.

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