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Item #5216

$19,000.00

17th Century English Oak Tester Bedstead - Jacobean

56" wide x 103" high x 87" long

York, Pennsylvania Warehouse

The headboard profusely carved with foliate and mask decorated twin arcaded panels flanked by

male and female terms with Ionic capitals, above a foliate rosette - filled geometrical three panel tier,

flanked by bearded male figures, with four plain panels below, joined by side rails to two foliate - carved,

bulbous and ring - turned columns, with square section strapwork decorated lower parts with block feet,

supporting  a nine panel tester, profusely carved with interlocking and quatrefoil geometrical decoration, surrounding

the central panel carved with a bust of a saintly figure in relief with an arcaded frieze rail, incorporating above the headboard

a pair of grotesque dragon carved panels between corbels.