Red-painted wooden doll's cradle with four tall splayed posts of squat round finials; shaped headboard and straight footboard; wide side panels grooved at the top, and removable bottom; on thick rockers with worn old, pinkish-red paint.
miniatures (toys)
cradles (children's beds)
doll-playing accessories
carving (processes)
mortise-and-tenon joints
joining
nailing
oak (wood)
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
Federal
pine (wood)
Pine
Oak
Mortise & Tenon
Painted
Nailed
Carved
Federal
CRADLE, DOLL'S
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
16.25 x 12 x 18 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1534
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