A George II Carved Mahogany Tester Bed, Mid-18th Century

Charlton House, Greenwich, London;

The Jerome C. Neuhoff Collection, Sotheby's New York, 25 January 1986, lot 182.

Percy Macquoid and Ralph Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London 1927, Vol.I p.38 fig. 27

Alice Winchester, 'An American Collection of English Antiques', The Connoisseur Yearbook, 1954, p.52 no. XIV

Alice Winchester, ed., 'England's age of mahogany', Living With Antiques, New York 1963, p.284

Charlton House is a Jacobean mansion constructed between 1607-1612 for Sir Adam Newton, Dean of Durham and tutor to Prince Henry, eldest son of James I, in the village of Charlton between Blackheath and Woolwich and now part of the Royal Borough of Greenwich, Greater London. The house passed through several owners in the ensuing centuries, including the East India Company merchant Sir William Langhorne (d.1715) in 1680 and then his nephew John Conyers (1649-1719), and thence by inheritance to the Maryon-Wilson baronets by the nineteenth century. The 11th Baronet, Sir Spencer Pocklington Maryon-Wilson (1859–1944), sold the estate to Greenwich Council in 1925, who now operate the house and grounds as an events centre and visitor attraction.

Jerome and Elizabeth Neuhoff formed a collection of late 17th and 18th century English furniture between the 1930s and 1950s for their Georgian-style house at King's Point on the north shore of Long Island, with a particular focus on richly carved mahogany furniture of the late George II and early George III eras. The collection was sold in an important single-owner auction in New York in 1986.