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Catalog Number |
0024 |
Object Name |
Bed, Four-Poster |
Date |
1796? |
Description |
Full-tester, flat-top, camp or field-style bedstead with four delicate, plain, tapering columnar posts over square tapered legs with spade feet and casters. Low serpentine headboard with large central rounded hump and pointed "ears" on either side. Hangings are reproductions, |
Artist |
Trotter, Daniel |
Year Range from |
1786 |
Year Range to |
1796 |
Made |
Philadelphia PA |
Material |
Mahogany |
Collection |
Stephen Girard Artifact Collection |
Height (in) |
84.000 |
Length (in) |
79.000 |
Width (in) |
52.500 |
Related Publications |
Schwarz, Robert D. The Stephen Girard Collection A Selective Catalog, # 20 Hornor, Blue Book of Philadelphia Furniture, 1935 pp 158-160 (illus) Bjerkoe, Ethel Hall. Cabinetmakers of America. 1957. p200 Castrodale, Daniel Trotter, Philadelphia Cabinetmaker. Thesis, U. Del, 1962. pp. 53, 54, 200-201 Golovin, Anne Castrodale. Daniel Trotter: 18th Century Philadelphia Cabinetmaker. Offprint from Winterthur Portfolio. #6. 1970 p.172-74(illus.) Graham, Mary Powell "Hatfield House, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia." Antiques. September 1978. pp 538-539 Wick, Stephen Girard: A Patron of the Philadelphia Furniture trade. Thesis, University of Delaware, 1977. p 76, 77, 277, 278 (illus.) |
Source |
Girard, Stephen |
Received as |
Bequest |
Other number |
GAF. 59 |
Used |
Stephen Girard's Water Street house |