Morse, Frances Clary · New York, the MacMillan Co. · leaf 102
asthose of earlier date. The low French bedstead be-came fashionable soon after this time, and the high 76 Furniture of the Olden Time four-poster was relegated to the attic, from which ithas of late years been rescued, and set up, drapedwith all of its old-time hangings. Illustration 54 shows a… … lllus. 54.—Low Bedstead, about 1830. drawer under the foot board being veneered. Thisdrawer may have been intended to use to keepblankets in. It has a little foot so that it remainsfirm when pulled out. At each side of the low bedis a carved shell, which slides out, showing a coveredrest, perhaps…
Furniture -- History
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