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Blue-painted hardwood and pine low-post bed. Baluster turned posts with round finials and slender swelled and tapering legs. Straight- back headboard with cropped arched corners. Outside rails with channeled grooves. Blue rich, but bright with turquoise cast.
beds (furniture)
sleeping and reclining furniture
dowels
hardwood
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
turning (shaping process)
Pine
Hardwood
Dowelled
Painted
Turned
Bed
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
33 x 36 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.336
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