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Federal field/canopy bed of red-stained hardwood, with turned and tapered posts on tapered square-post legs with relief-decorated brass medallion ornaments at the front of each foot-post (marking upper and lower sections of each post), with plain, pointed headboard and channeled side rails; high and rounded red-stained canopy with 2 bars at top, 2 between posts (top of posts shortened canopy not original to bed).
field beds
sleeping and reclining furniture
staining
wood (plant material)
turning (shaping process)
Federal
Bed, Field
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
USA
78 x 51 1/4 x 81 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1275
Title Canopy Accession Number 1991.1326
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