Elizabethan design oak 5' Kingsize four-poster bed, the canopy with projecting moulded and gadrooned cornice over applied strapwork frieze, Ionic capital over tapering fluted posts with cup and cover balusters carved with gadroons and acanthus leaves, terminating to square supports with applied strapwork and split turnings, the panelled headboard carved with a coat of arms and inscribed 'WJR' dated '1857', possibly for the Rawson Family who rebuilt Nidd Hall in 1825, with motto 'Reddens Laudes Domino', decorated with arcades and further applied strapwork, with floral and urn pattern chintz curtains and matching bedspread
Provenance: Nidd Hall: acquired by Guy Reed from Richard Butler, 17th Viscount Mountgarret, in 1968