The cornice painted with trailing flowers and foliage and dressed with a colourful Moroccan tent band, on tapering turned and reeded front posts, with a padded upholstered head board and canted panel screw covers, on square tapering feet and raised on castors, the front right post stamped GILLOWS LANCASTER
102¹⁄₂ in. (260.5 cm.) high; 72 in. (183 cm.) wide; 83 in. (210.5) deep overall

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 12 November 2020, lot 160, where acquired by the present owner.

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The front posts correspond closely to the `handsome four poster bedstead' supplied by Gillows for Sir Charles Tempest's Green Room at Broughton Hall, Yorks, in 1841 at a cost of £26 plus £10.2s.6¹⁄₂d for green twill chintz, twill-lining and fringes (see Susan E. Stuart Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730 - 1840, Woodbridge, 2008, vol. I, pp. 355-356 and pl. 420). Sir Charles's bed had a mahogany cornice which were fashionable again, the painted cornice featured on the present lot may therefore have been pre-existing and the bed supplied to fit.