Furniture of the Pilgrim century, 1620-1720, including colonial utensils and hardware (1910)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 · Framingham, Boston : Old America Company · leaf 346
A BED with a canopy on which appears a repeated figure of peacocks inblue with fohage. The phrase, tent bed often used is perhaps derived fromthe rounded tops of some canopy beds. Others derive their name from thefact that the posts are made in two sections. The upper sections were calledpoles,… … ABOVE is a canopied bed with an early printed pattern. One may seefrom this picture the slender character of the eight-sided poles which sup-port the top. We cannot too strongly stress the fact that no 17th Centurybeds and no early i8th Century beds have been found in America withcarved posts. They…
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