On View
Not on viewBed footrail
Date1820-1840
Terms
- Footboards
- Birch
- Maple
- Pine
- Paint
- New England
Dimensions137.06 × 185.28 × 137.06 cm (53 15/16 × 72 15/16 × 53 15/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Stephen MacDougall in memory of Allister MacDougall (1995)
Object number1995.14a
DescriptionBedstead consisting of one footrail (1995.14a) with attached board, one headrail (1995.14b) with detached board (1995.14c), two mattress rails (1995.14d, 1995.14e) and a trundle bed (1995.14f). Maple, birch bedstead with trundle bed. Headboard and footboard each consisting of two turned posts with pointed tops bolted to a four inch rail and tenoned to a scrolled board, rosewood-grained. Stamped brass bolt covers. The red-stained birch rails are drilled for roping. The bedstead came with a crudely fashioned trundle bed with wood casters. Maple, pine, grain-painted to imitate mahogany.
