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1835-1860
GUSN-11310
It has "sleigh bed" form head and foot boards with rolled top rail and eurolinen uprights with oval feet enclosing rectangular panels. It is painted a creamy white/grey and heightened with decorative blue pinstriping and corner scrolled devices centering a polychrome floral spray. It has shaped side rails, similarly painted without the floral center.
beds (furniture)
sleeping and reclining furniture
hardwood
painting (coating)
Tudor Revival
Empire (style)
Hardwood
Painted
Cottage
Empire
BED
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
39 x 55 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1657
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