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Pencil post bed, with octagonal upper posts on stepped molded bases raised on square tapering legs hold arched canopy frame. The plain rectangular headboard has cut corners and rails drilled with holes for roping. Brass rosettes at the footposts above the original rails. The bed is painted red. The present canopy is not an original.
pencil-post beds
sleeping and reclining furniture
maple (wood)
painting (coating)
Federal
maple (wood)
Maple
Painted
Federal
BED, CANOPY
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
75 x 48.25 x 75 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1189
Connecticut (United States)
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