Adam's THE LIBRARY COLLECTION 1st May 2024

130 A CHIPPENDALE FOUR POSTER BED, PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1775 the stop-fluted front posts above ‘Marlborough’ legs and block feet joined by a footrail, the back with octagonal shaped posts joined by a head rail, the frame with later a floral silk pelmet € 3,000 - 5,000 131 WILLIAM MARSHALL, AFTER STUART GILBERT Portrait of George Washington Published 1862, Monochrome engraving, 37 x 31cm € 100 - 200 Marlborough or ‘Marlboro’ square legs were popular in eighteenth century Amer- ican bedsteads. The tapered square section of the Marlborough legs offer them- selves as sturdy pedestals to the pillars of the bed. The term was first recorded in the Bristol Journal in 1783, ‘ For Sale. A neat Mahogany Marlboro Bedstead ’. How- ever, this style of square leg ostensibly takes its name from George Spencer, the 4th Duke of Marlborough, to whom William Ince and John Mayhew dedicated their book The Universal System of Household Furniture (1759-62) . A similar fourposter bed from Philadelphia is part of the Winterthur Museum collection. Property from Dawesfield, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania