An Elizabeth I/James I joined oak tester bed, circa 1600-20 and later


The tester with twelve panels, each carved with a flower-filled lozenge within a knot-pattern border, the frieze rails with internal dentil-mouldings and nulled-carved outer face with applied pierced and cushion-moulded 'corbels', all below a leaf-carved cornice, the headboard with paired narrow panels carved with leafy S-scrolls, above a pair of stylized flowerhead-carved panels, all centred and flanked by paired carved corbels, above two deep recessed panels, each carved with a carnation stem within an egg-and-dart carved arcade raised on stiff-leaf carved pillars, and spaced by figural terms, with four plain base panels below, the free-standing end-posts with Ionic capitals and acanthus bulbs over a stop-fluted tapering column, with gadrooned base and further bulbous-turnings below carved with gadrooning and palmettes, and on a plinth base, the bedstock of heavy rails, 156cm wide x 259cm deep x 221cm high, (61in wide x 101 1/2in deep x 87in high)