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A FEDERAL CARVED MAHOGANY HIGHPOST BEDSTEAD
NORTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS, 1790-1815
The tapering baluster-turned and reeded footposts above rectangular blocks inlaid with panels of satinwood, on inverted baluster-turned feet, the similar headposts centering an eagle-carved headboard, surmounted by an arched tester (headboard not original)--97in. high (including canopy), 55½in. wide, 79in. long
NORTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS, 1790-1815
The tapering baluster-turned and reeded footposts above rectangular blocks inlaid with panels of satinwood, on inverted baluster-turned feet, the similar headposts centering an eagle-carved headboard, surmounted by an arched tester (headboard not original)--97in. high (including canopy), 55½in. wide, 79in. long
Literature
Loan Exhibition of Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth century Furniture and Glass...For the Benefit of the National Council of Girl Scouts, Inc. (New York, 1929), no. 706.
Charles F. Montgomery, American Furniture: The Federal Period (New York, 1966), pp. 60, 62, no. 2.
Charles F. Montgomery, American Furniture: The Federal Period (New York, 1966), pp. 60, 62, no. 2.