Object Record
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Catalog Number |
0022 |
Object Name |
Bed, Four-Poster |
Date |
1806 |
Description |
Full-tester camp or field-style bedstead with ogee-shaped arch top tester. Four turned and carved posts combining fluted vasiform elements with festoon and drapery carved urn-shaped elements and acanthus-leaf carved capitals. Low serpentine headboard with elongated central rounded hump and pointed "ears" on either side. Round tapered legs with conical feet and casters. |
Artist |
Haines, Ephraim |
Year Range from |
1806 |
Made |
Philadelphia |
Material |
Mahogany |
Collection |
Stephen Girard Artifact Collection |
Height (in) |
66.250 |
Width (in) |
58.000 |
Depth (in) |
82.000 |
Related Publications |
Schwarz, Robert D. The Stephen Girard Collection A Selective Catalog, # 30. Bjerkoe, Ethall Hall. The Cabinetmakers of America. 1957. p 119 Hornor, Blue Book of Philadelphia Furniture, 1935. p. 164 (illus plate #247) Singleton, Esther. The Furniture of Our Forefatehrs. 1970. pp 454 (illus.), 472 Wick, Stephen Girard: A Patron of the Philadelphia Furniture trade, University of Delaware, 1977. pp. 98, 282 (illus) |
Source |
Girard, Stephen |
Received as |
Bequest |
Other number |
GAF. 55 |
Used |
Stephen Girard's Water Street house |