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Birch pencil-post bed with tester frame above tapered octagonal posts continuing to square legs with "lambs tongue" carving where they meet, with wide headboard straight on top with scrolled ends, pierced side rails, all with original reddish-brown stain; wears reproduction wallpaper tester (1992.475)
pencil-post beds
sleeping and reclining furniture
birch (wood)
carving (processes)
mortise-and-tenon joints
joining
sawing
staining
Birch
Stained
Mill Sawn
Mortise & Tenon
Carved
Bed, Four-poster
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
84 x 54 x 76.5 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1466
Title Bed Accession Number 1991.1532
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