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Four-poster Bed

Collection Type

  • Furniture

Date

1800-1840

GUSN

GUSN-4254

Description

Ring and vase turned posts terminating in acorn finials, scrolled headboards.

Details

Descriptive Terms

high-post beds
sleeping and reclining furniture
maple (wood)
maple (wood)
Maple
BED, FOUR-POSTER

Associated Building

Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

61.5 x 42.125 x 79.5 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler

Accession Number

1977.507.1

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