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Lot 684
Description:
An American Rococo Carved Mahogany Full Tester Bed, mid-19th c., the ogee tester stamped with the number "3", cluster column posts, the shaped and paneled headboard centered by a scroll cartouche, serpentine rails and foot, octagonal plinth feet, overall height 115 in., length 87 in., width 75 in., mattress length 75 in., width 57 in.; together with an American cherrywood and mixed woods trundle bed, 19th c., turned and blocked posts, shaped rails, height 10 in., overall width 47 1/2 in., length 60 in.
- Provenance: Provenance: The tester bed and the trundle bed offered here have been used together by a New Orleans Family over several generations.
- Literature: Reference: Harrison, "'C. Lee Maker of Beds for the Southern Market", Maine Antique Digest, April 1994.
- Notes: Note: Two mahogany beds with C. Lee incised stamp and pattern numbers (such as the "3" on the bed offered here) and with similar ogee testers, clustered posts, shaped headboards and rails were sold by Neal Auction Company as lot 373, January 30, 2010 and lot 932, October 12, 2008. Beds stamped "C. Lee" appear in the inventories of New Orleans Furniture purveyors Calvin Chandler Simpson, John Yetter and William McCracken in the years leading to the Civil War. Research by scholar and curator Stephen Harrison revealed Charles Lee (active 1856-1868) was a Manchester, Massachusetts craftsman known as a "maker of bedsteads for the Southern market".
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July 18, 2010 11:00 AM CDT
New Orleans, LA, US
Neal Auction Company
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