Lot 749
An American Rococo Carved Rosewood Half-Tester Bed, mid- 19th c., the beaded and molded original tester supported by Gothicized tall posts and having a paneled headboard topped by a shell-work carved crest and centering a foliate pendant of carved flowers. E7000-9000 9000 Provenance: The Estate of May Belle Taylor Bartlett, Historic Oak Hurst, Como, Mississippi. Como was established in 1856, and has always been a small, but very prosperous cotton plantation community. In his 1907 Mississippi, Dunbar Rowland discusses in some detail the annual cotton production from Como p. 489 The Estate also includes many objects passed down from early 19th century Yarbrough family antecedents in nearby Holly Springs, Mississippi. Note: For a discussion of "plantation" four poster and half tester beds found in New Orleans, see Stephen G. Harrison "The Nineteenth Century Furniture Trade in New Orleans', The Magazine Antiques May 1997, pgs. 755 and 758
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