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Catalog Number |
0034 |
Object Name |
Bed |
Date |
1796 ca. |
Description |
Low-post bedstead made of a softwood (possibly poplar) and stained red. Headrail with headboard and legs, footrail with legs and two side rails. Pointed pediment-shaped or triangular headboard. Simple bun or onion-shaped turnings atop posts. |
Artist |
Trotter, Daniel |
Made |
Philadelphia PA |
Material |
Poplar/Hickory |
Collection |
Stephen Girard Artifact Collection |
Height (in) |
32.500 |
Width (in) |
42.000 |
Related Publications |
Schwarz, Robert D. The Stephen Girard Collection A Selective Catalog, # 21 Castrodale, Daniel Trotter, Philadelphia Cabinetmaker. Thesis, U. Del, 1962. pp. 54-55, 202-203. Golovin, Anne Castrodale. Daniel Trotter: 18th Century Philadelphia Cabinetmaker. Offprint from Winterthur Portfolio. #6. 1970 p.175-179 Illus. Graham, Mary Powell. "Hatfield House, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia." Antiques CXIV #3 (9-1978) pp 538-39. (illus.) Wick, Stephen Girard: A Patron of the Philadelphia Furniture trade, University of Delaware, 1977 pp. 77, 280 (illus.) |
Source |
Girard, Stephen |
Received as |
Bequest |
Other number |
GAF. 69-70 |
Used |
Stephen Girard's Water Street house |