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 150cm, Foot: 120 x 150cm, Base: 189cm long, 136cm wide A DOUBLE BEDHEAD, BY ROBERT PRENZEL Foot 121cm high, 149cm wide, Head 150.5cm high, 150cm wide, Base 190cm long, 136cm wide The headboard 150cm high, 150cm wide; the fooboard 121cm high, 149cm wide; the base 190cm long, 136cm 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)