Pencilpost Bed

Item Information

Title:
Pencilpost Bed
Description:
Birch pencil-post bed with tester frame above tapered octagonal posts continuing to square legs with "lambs tongue" carving where they meet, with wide headboard straight on top with scrolled ends, pierced side rails, all with original reddish-brown stain; wears reproduction wallpaper tester (1992.475)
Date:
1780–1800
Format:
Objects/Artifacts
Genre:
birch (wood)
carving (processes)
mortise-and-tenon joints
joining
sawing
staining (coloring)
pencil-post beds
sleeping and reclining furniture
Location:
Historic New England
Collection (local):
Digitized Museum Collections
Subjects:
Birch
Stained
Mill Sawn
Mortise & Tenon
Carved
Places:
Massachusetts > Essex (county) > Essex
Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.)
Extent:
84 in. x 54 in. x 76.5 in. (H x W x D)
Link to Item:
https://gusn.us/2986
Terms of Use:
Rights status not evaluated.
Contact host institution for more information.
Notes:
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
Accession #:
1991.1466
Identifier:
2986