CIRCA 1825 AND LATER

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A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY FOUR-POST SINGLE BED
CIRCA 1825 AND LATER
With giltwood cornice and red silk-damask hangings, with foliage-carved reeded front posts and later backposts.
111 in. (282 cm.) high; 57 in. (145 cm.) wide; 93 in. (236 cm.) deep

Provenance

Almost certainly supplied to Arthur Hill-Trevor, 2nd Viscount Dungannon (d. 1837), for Brynkinalt, Wales.
Thence by descent until sold in the house sale, circa 1952, when it was bought by Lt.-Col. and Lady Margaret Myddelton.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

Lot Essay

The bed's reeded posts wrapped by Roman acanthus are designed in the George IV antique manner, such as George Smith illustrated in his Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterers, Guide, Drawing Book and Repository, 1826; while the cornice's architectural tablet corners reflects a fashion popular around 1700.

Brynkinalt, Clwyd, the ancient family seat of the Trevor family, was built in 1612 by Sir Edward Trevor, Sir Thomas Myddelton's political rival. Two centuries later the house was aggrandised by Arthur-Hill Trevor, 2nd Viscount Dungannon, and then in 1926 and again in 1952, when it was returned almost to its original appearance.

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