PARTS 16TH/17TH CENTURY

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A SPANISH GILT-WROUGHT-IRON BEDSTEAD
PARTS 16TH/17TH CENTURY
The head posts and foot posts with scrolling clasps and the headboard with pierced scrolling foliate and elements joined by a wrought-iron stretcher and rails, extensive losses to gilding
95 in. (241.5 cm.) high, 63 in. (160 cm.) wide, 83 in. (211 cm.) deep

Provenance

with Armand du Vannes, Hollywood.

Special notice

Christie's is selling all lots in this sale as agent for an organization which holds a State of New York Exempt Organization certificate. Seller explicitly reserves all trademark and trade name rights and rights of privacy and publicity in the name and image of Doris Duke. No buyer of any property in this sale will acquire any right to use the Doris Duke name or image. Seller further explicitly reserves all copyright rights in designs or other copyrightable works included in the property offered for sale. No buyer of any property in the sale will acquire the rights to reproduce, distribute copies of, or prepare derivative works of such designs or copyrightable works.

Lot Essay

This bedstead is related to one with giltwood finials from the collection of Lady D'Abernon, wife of Viscount D'Abernon, G.C.B., G.C.M.G, and daughter of 1st Earl of Feversham, sold Christie's, London, 26 November 1996, lot 327.

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