A double bedstead with heavy spool turned posts. The plain headboard panel is enclosed in spool-turned rails with a gallery of spindles below a turned crest with large finial ends. The footboard has a double gallery of turned spindles below a similar crest.
bedframes
sleeping and reclining furniture
walnut (wood)
Elizabethan Revival
walnut (wood)
Walnut
Elizabethan Revival
BEDSTEAD
Original to Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm (Newbury, Mass.),
Unknown
47.5 x 55.25 (HxW) (inches)
Bequest of Amelia W. Little
1986.747
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