Pine pencil posts at head with curvilinear headboard; side rails pierced for rope; birch foot posts constructed in three pieces: rope-turned upper section, turned and blocked middle, turned lower post; ovoid brass medallions screwed to blocked section of post at end of bed, covering bed bolts; tester frame.
field beds
sleeping and reclining furniture
birch (wood)
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
Sheraton
Bed
Bed, Canopy
Bed, Field
Bed, Field
Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
Unknown
80 1/2 x 56 3/4 x 76 5/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Ralph May
1971.644.1
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