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A carved blackwood double bed by Robert Prenzel, circa 1908, of…
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Melbourne
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8-Aug-2022
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A carved blackwood double bed by Robert Prenzel, circa 1908, of rectilinear design, the headboard with a moulded toprail above a horizontal panel finely carved in relief with sprays of flowering and fruiting eucalyptus on a stippled ground, four plain panels below, the footboard conforming with four similarly carved panels forming a quadriptych design above a shallow bow-front shelf, with the original pine framed wire sprung mattress base, head: 150 x 150 cm, foot: 120 x 150 cm, base: 189 cm long, 136 cm wide, a double bedhead, by Robert Prenzel, foot 121 cm high, 149 cm wide, head 150.5 cm high, 150 cm wide, base 190 cm long, 136 cm wide, the headboard 150 cm high, 150 cm wide; the fooboard 121 cm high, 149 cm wide; the base 190 cm long, 136 cm wide. Provenance: part of a suite of bedroom furniture commissioned from Robert Prenzel circa 1908 by Margaret Laidlaw as a gift for her husband, Thomas Haliburton Laidlaw, and installed at 'Kilora', Hamilton, Victoria, Thence by descent in the Laidlaw family, Western District, Victoria, Literature: Terence Lane, Robert Prenzel, 1866-1941: his life and work, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1994, p. 18 (referring to the suite generally) and relatedly p. 20, fig. 34 (illustrating the wardrobe from the suite - lot 86 in the present auction)
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Furniture: Beds & Cots