Board cradle. Mahogany with maple rockers, white pine bottom and support blocks. Three-pitch hood, arched skirt, scalloped sides and footboard. Brass bail handle and applied molding.
cradles (children's beds)
sleeping and reclining furniture
mahogany (wood)
Bed
Bed, Child's
Cradle
Mahogany
Cradle
1920.67B
Unknown
Boston, Massachusetts, New England
27 1/2 x 22 1/3 x 41 1/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Bequest of Mrs. James H. Beal
1920.67.1
Jobe, Brock and Myrna Kaye. New England Furniture: The Colonial Era. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984.
Massachusetts (United States)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
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