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17TH CENTURY AND LATER
Details
A LARGE OAK TESTER BED
17TH CENTURY AND LATER
The head-board with arcaded floral marquetry panels and small gargoyle-like figures flanked by bearded caryatids and central female figure and with projecting ears carved with fruiting vine, the lower part with biblical panels and a row of lozenges below, the roof with four large recessed marquetry panels and gothic cornice, supported by tapering posts with oversize bulbs and square plinths depicting Faith, Hope and Charity, the pedimented foot-board carved with portrait roundels and central Green Man face
105 in. (267 cm.) high; 80 in. (204 cm.) widest point (ears); 69 in. (175 cm.) wide (bed-frame); 103 in. (262 cm.) long
17TH CENTURY AND LATER
The head-board with arcaded floral marquetry panels and small gargoyle-like figures flanked by bearded caryatids and central female figure and with projecting ears carved with fruiting vine, the lower part with biblical panels and a row of lozenges below, the roof with four large recessed marquetry panels and gothic cornice, supported by tapering posts with oversize bulbs and square plinths depicting Faith, Hope and Charity, the pedimented foot-board carved with portrait roundels and central Green Man face
105 in. (267 cm.) high; 80 in. (204 cm.) widest point (ears); 69 in. (175 cm.) wide (bed-frame); 103 in. (262 cm.) long
Provenance
By Repute, Sir Henry Edwards (1812-1886), Pye Nest House, Halifax
Henry MacDougall-Rawson (d.1924), Mill House, Sowerby,
Arthur Speak purchased 1947
Henry MacDougall-Rawson (d.1924), Mill House, Sowerby,
Arthur Speak purchased 1947
Special notice
All sold and unsold lots marked with a filled square in the catalogue that are not cleared from Christie’s by 5:00 pm on the day of the sale, and all sold and unsold lots not cleared from Christie’s by 5:00 pm on the fifth Friday following the sale, will be removed to the warehouse of ‘Cadogan Tate’. Please note that there will be no charge to purchasers who collect their lots within two weeks of this sale.