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  2. Bed hangings - Wikipedia

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    The New Elizabethan Embroidery Project created a new set of bed hangings in the Elizabethan style for the 16th century bed in the Grand Tudor chamber in Sulgrave Manor, the ancestral home of George Washington, the first president of the United States. Completed in 2007 by stitchers in both the US and the UK, the designs were inspired by motifs ...

  3. Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture - Wikipedia

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    The term Elizabethan has been used distinctively in relation to the Renaissance, rather than exactly in relation to the English styles; for it really began some years before Elizabeth was born and extended over some years after she died, only then receiving its full development. It is not quite possible to fix the exact limits of the different ...

  4. Great Bed of Ware - Wikipedia

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    The Great Bed of Ware is an extremely large oak four poster bed, carved with marquetry, that was originally housed in the White Hart Inn in Ware, England. Built by Hertfordshire carpenter Jonas Fosbrooke about 1590, the bed measures 3.38m long and 3.26m wide (ten by eleven feet) [ 2 ] and can "reputedly... accommodate at least four couples". [ 3 ]

  5. Four-poster bed - Wikipedia

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    Four-poster bed Ornate Elizabethan four-poster bed Four-poster bed (lit à colonnes), 19th century, château de Compiègne, France. A four-poster bed or tester bed [1] is a bed with four vertical columns, one in each corner, that support a tester, or upper (usually rectangular) panel. This tester or panel will often have rails to allow curtains ...

  6. Hill Hall (Essex) - Wikipedia

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    In his will, Smith mentions that Richard Kyrkebye or Kyrbie was the chief architect and builder of Hill Hall, according to the "plat" or plan he had given to him. Some of the furnishings at Hill Hall in 1578 were listed in the will of Lady Philippa Smith, including beds made of French walnut wood in the Great Chamber, Gallery, and Green Bedchamber.

  7. Marriage bed of Henry VII - Wikipedia

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    When Coulson finally got to examine the bed when it was delivered to his studio a few weeks after the sale he was immediately struck by the age of the wood, noting the degree of oxidisation, shrinkage, the damage caused by extensive woodworm infestation, that the carvings had been made by hand rather than by machine – all of which suggested to him that this was a bed of a considerable age.

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  9. Turned chair - Wikipedia

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    Turned chair, in the Bishop's Palace, Wells, Somerset, England (Early 17th century). Turned chairs – sometimes called thrown chairs or spindle chairs – represent a style of Elizabethan or Jacobean turned furniture that were in vogue in the late 16th and early 17th century England, New England and Holland.

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