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Hooded pine cradle with outward sloping straight sides and foot; foot and hood supports have scalloped edges as does hood frontal molding; top of hood made from three boards, the two sides angled upward and the top flat; rests on two rockers with rounded ends; painted brick red; tacked joints; plant construction.
cradles (children's beds)
sleeping and reclining furniture
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
Pine
Painted
CRADLE
Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
Unknown
26.125 x 36.625 x 19 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Ralph May
1971.726
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