Great Bed of Ware
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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, Hertfordshire, England. Built by Hertfordshire carpent
Bed of Ware
Victoria and Albert Museum
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The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.
Great Bed of Ware
…the bed and put it to use in a pleasure garden. When interest in the garden waned in the 1920s, the bed was sold. In 1931, it was acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, which had previously turned down an opportunity to acquire the bed in 1865, describing it as a "coarse and mutilated relic in no wise…
Henry Cole, the museum's first director
South Kensington Museum, a watercolour painting by J.C. Lanchenick
Interior of the Young V&A, with iron work from the Brompton Boilers