Furniture, Works of Art and Clocks - 2nd October 2019
Lot 30
A 17th century oak bedstead
Estimate £800 - £1,200 | Hammer £3200
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Description
A 17th century oak bedstead, the headboard with a moulded dentil cornice above a pair of panels carved with leaf scrolls and with initials 'AW' and 'MW', possibly commemorating a marriage, above four conforming panels, the footboard with a lunette frieze and quadruple panels, with a later base, West Country, 181cm high, 208.5cm long, 147.8cm wide.
Provenance:
Purchased from B. I. Howard Antiques, Sampford Brett, Somerset, 5th May 1992, for £2,200.
'A Lifetime of Collecting'-The property of a gentleman.