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An Impressive Joined Oak Canopy Bedstead, the panelled headboard surmounted by a geometric parquetry decorated frieze between carved dogs' heads with two arcaded and marquetry decorated panels below, all between caryatid mounts, with a panelled footboard and chamfered square supports below a pink velvet upholstered canopy top, takes a 4ft6in mattress Provenance: Ex Kildwick Hill, Skipton
A 19th Century mahogany long case clock case with replacement battery movement and printed dial in the 19th Century style by Big Ben Clocks of London, and a mahogany single bedstead, chest of three drawers and nine various cane seated bedroom chairs, together with a Victorian upholstered ottoman daybed in the Howard style (for restoration) CONDITION REPORTS The case with some scratches, marks and pock type marks. Verneers lifting/cracked and bubbling in some areas mainly visibly to the arch of the hood. Some reeding missing in the column area around the hood in some locales. Some chips and missing moulding in various locales. All over various general signs of wear and tear throughout. The top of the clock shows signs of the wood splitting. The spherical finial in the centre is missing the top of the spike. The inlay in the centre at the top of the clock is cracked and there are losses. The moulding to the right hand side of the top of the clock has a small section missing at the bottom. Numerous cracks and ecretions and dents to the top of the clock. The column on the left hand side shows areas of loss. The col;umn on the right hand side is loose and shows some losses. There are numerous scratches and scuffs to the top of the clock, on the side and at the back. The main body of the clock has ecretions, some loss of varnish. There are some losses to the moulding on the right hand side of the door on the main body of the clock. Inside there are signs of mold or mildew, both on the back of the door and inside the clock itself. On the base of the clock there are numerous ecrtetions, some loss of varnish, numerous dents and scuffs. On the top left hand side of the moulding on the base there is a section missing. Areas of varnish missing, numerous dents and scratches to the base - see iamges for details. The back of the clock has numeraous areas of mold or mildew, there are dents and scuffs all the way down - see images for details. All the spherical finials at the top seem to have been repaired at some point.
George III mahogany four post bedstead with fluted and reeded baluster columns surmounted by a moulded cornice, hung with red damask bed curtains, bedspread and valance, 48in wide. Provenance: The " Red Bedroom" Faringdon House, Oxfordshire, which has recently sold, and was the home of Lord Berners - composer, writer, painter. He made FH the centre of a glittering social circle in the last century, entertaining some of the most diverse, creative and influential people during the 1920/30s. Guests included Evelyn Waugh, Siegfried Sassoon, John Betjaman, The Mitford Sisters, Salvador Dali, HG Wells, Gertrude Stein. Many guests stayed in the "Red Bed", including Salvador and Gala Dali (see illustration of signature in guest book). Famously quoted by Nancy Mitford (Mitford Sisters & author of Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate) in her article in Homes and Gardens in 1950s, and again in the Book 'The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother and Me' (Lot 266), "I can remember, during the tedious or frightening but always sleepless nights of fire-watchings in wartime London, that the place I longed to be in most intensely was the red bedroom at Faringdon, with its crackling fire, its Bessarabian carpet with bunchy flowers, and above all its four-post bed, whence from beneath a huge fat fluffy old-fashioned quilt one can gaze out at the view, head still on the pillow...."
A pair of French mahogany and gilt bronze mounted clothes presses, by Francois Linke, in Louis XVI style, late 19th/ early 20th century, each mottled marble top above a pair of drawers and a pair of cupboard doors, opening to a shelved interior, above three further drawers, flanked overall by corner mounts cast with scrolling acanthus and trailing flowers, on outswept cabriole shaped legs terminating in sabots, 162cm high, 130cm wide, 49cm deep For examples of bedroom furniture by Francois Linke that appear positively to match the current lot (be from the same suite) see Christie s, The Collector, 16th November 2017, Lot 526. The overall design, design of the mounts and use of specific bréche d Alep marble tops match the current lot. The suite offered at Christie s included a commode with dressing mirror (lockplate signed CT/LINKE ), a bedstead, a cheval mirror and a bedside cabinet. Another matching suite of bedroom furniture by Linke and containing a chest (or press) matching those currently being offered was offered by Christie s (New York, The Opulent Eye, 18th November 2014, Lot 131) The same suite included a cheval mirror, a bedside table, a lady s dressing table (the lockplates of the chest also stamped CT LINKE ). For closely related examples of bedroom furniture by Francois Linke, see Christopher Payne, 19th century European Furniture, Antique Collectors Club 1985 (second edition), page 51.
Quality early 20th century oak double 4' 6'' bedstead, gadroon carved top, above relief carved frieze, with scrolls and lunettes, three panelled head and footboard, applied geometric mouldings, retailed by 'Rothwells, New Briggate, Leeds' Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs
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