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Lowpost bed. Red painted maple. Four boldly turned posts with ball finials, shaped headboard with straight top, side rails pierced for ropes (no longer used) and lengthened with iron bolts at the posts (was once a child's bed). The has an original brick red color overall and is fitted with a modern metal bed frame on casters.
low-post beds
sleeping and reclining furniture
iron (metal)
maple (wood)
turning (shaping process)
maple (wood)
Maple
Iron
Turned
BED, FOUR-POSTER
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Metcalf, Luther, 1756-1838 (Maker)
Medway, MA, USA
36 3/4 x 43 x 81 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1190
Massachusetts (United States)
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