INCORPORATING ELEMENTS OF THREE CHINESE-EXPORT BAMBOO AND SIMULATED PELMETS, THE PELMETS EARLY 19TH CENTURY, THE BEDS PROBABLY CONSTRUCTED IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF SIMULATED-BAMBOO SINGLE BEDS
INCORPORATING ELEMENTS OF THREE CHINESE-EXPORT BAMBOO AND SIMULATED PELMETS, THE PELMETS EARLY 19TH CENTURY, THE BEDS PROBABLY CONSTRUCTED IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Each with later stepped headboard above one bamboo-filled panelled side rail, and a conforming foot-rail, the remaining side rail simulated bamboo-painted but plain, on turned legs, the reverse of one foot-rail inscribed 'Bedroom'
The headboard - 60¼ in. (153 cm.) high;
The beds - 81¾ in. (208 cm.) long; 37 in. (94 cm.) wide (2)

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Lot Essay

The '1839' Inventory records a 'Cornice blind' in the 'Chinese Room'. It appears that the present beds may have been constructed using these pelmets.

The Duke of Bedford patronised the Prince's architect Humphrey Repton (d.1818) at both Endsleigh and Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, as well as the Mount Street court cabinet-makers Edward Bailey and Thomas Tatham (d .1818), who supplied him with related Chinese-fashioned ' Bamboo chairs' (sold at Christie's House sale, Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, 20-21 September 2004, lot 900).

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