16TH CENTURY AND LATER

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A MASSIVE ENGLISH OAK TESTER BED
16TH CENTURY AND LATER
The headboard formed of a Tudor Royal Coat of Arms panel flanked by figures and large heraldic dogs in profile and with plain fielded panels below, the headboard formed of four panels each centred with a mask or 'green man' and with a further central mask or green man, all surrounded by a dentil and guilloche-carved cornice and supported on massive turned posts carved with guilloche and gadrooning
95in. (241cm.) high, 98in. (249cm.) long, 87in. (221cm.) wide, the bed frame 59in. (150cm.) wide, 76in. (193cm.) long, the Coat of Arms panel 39½in. (100cm.) wide, 25in. (64cm.) high, the posts 12½in. (32cm.) diameter

Provenance

St Donat's Castle, Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales

Rooksnest, Lambourne, Berkshire, Sotheby's House Sale, 28th March 1984, Lot 337

Literature

Percy Maquoid The Age of Oak, Volume 1 1905, Figure 64 and 65

Charles Latham In English Homes, Country Life 1907, p. 29

Roy Denning (Editor) The Story of St Donat's Castle and Atlantic College, Cowbridge 1983, p.66

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium

Lot Essay

St Donat's Castle had a steady succession of owners during the 1800's, but underwent extensive refurbishment after Morgan Williams bought the castle in 1901. He died in 1909, the castle changed hands in 1922 and then again in 1925 when William Randolph Hearst bought it. The St Donat's Castle bed is believed to have left the castle by 1922.

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