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1790-1820
GUSN-3192
Brownish-red painted bed; Scalloped headboard joins square head posts with stacked circle, mushroom finials and turned, tapered lower posts ending in rings and heavy mushroom cap feet; conforming foot posts; rails are pierced with holes for roping; currently disassembled.
beds (furniture)
sleeping and reclining furniture
maple (wood)
oak (wood)
painting (coating)
turning (shaping process)
maple (wood)
Maple
Oak
Turned
Painted
Bed
Some of the elements are marked with Roman numerals for proper assemblage.
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
1991.975
Unknown
38.5 x 54 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.975A-I
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