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1800-1830
GUSN-3041
Red-painted hardwood child's low-post bed, the tapered square legs wit flattened ball finials; pointed headboard, pierced side rails with roping, old brick-red paint overall with second coat underneath.
beds (furniture)
sleeping and reclining furniture
mortise-and-tenon joints
joining
painting (coating)
rope
sawing
turning (shaping process)
wood (plant material)
Children's furnishing
Wood
Rope
Mill Sawn
Painted
Turned
Mortise & Tenon
Federal
Bed
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
28 1/2 x 38 1/4 x 50 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1532
Title Pencilpost Bed Accession Number 1991.1466
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