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Low-post bed

Object number

RIF4196

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

Height: 33 1/4 in. (84.455 cm) Length: 77 in. (195.58 cm) Width: 48 in. (121.92 cm)

Date

1760–90

Current location

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany (primary); birch and white pine (secondary)

Provenance

Teina Baumstone, New York; sold to the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia, 1952

Associated names

Teina Baumstone

Bibliography

Barry A. Greenlaw, New England Furniture at Williamsburg (Williamsburg, Va.: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia, 1974), 10–11, no. 2, ill.