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A low-post bed with cylindrical finials on bulbous turned and tapering back posts and conforming lower front posts; The headboard has straight, molded top slopes at sides into posts; The molded edges are pierced with nails for roping. Stained red.
beds (furniture)
sleeping and reclining furniture
pine (wood)
painting (coating)
turning (shaping process)
pine (wood)
Sheraton
Pine
Turned
Painted
Sheraton
BED
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
31.75 x 36.25 x 76.75 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1362
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