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Lot 145¤
Federal Canopied Birch, Maple, and Pine Field Bed Portsmouth, New Hampshire, c. 1815
2 – 12 August 2025, 12:00 EDT
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Federal Canopied Birch, Maple, and Pine Field Bed
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, c. 1815
Richly figured birch posts with sharp reed carving on the attenuated baluster turnings of at the foot of the bed, above mortised blocks inlaid on two exposed sides with panels of flame mahogany in contrasting mitered and herringbone-patterned frames of mahogany and maple, raised on stout urn- and ring-turned legs with bulb feet, as used at the base of stiles supporting the canted rectangular pine headboard, joined with maple rails and pine battens, retaining its maple folding tester and six rails, nine iron bar railings, and original red-stained, grain-painted surfaces throughout, 139cm wide, 200cm deep, 213cm high (55 1/4in wide, 79in deep, 84in high). Ht. excluding tester, 63 1/4 in.
Richly figured birch posts with sharp reed carving on the attenuated baluster turnings of at the foot of the bed, above mortised blocks inlaid on two exposed sides with panels of flame mahogany in contrasting mitered and herringbone-patterned frames of mahogany and maple, raised on stout urn- and ring-turned legs with bulb feet, as used at the base of stiles supporting the canted rectangular pine headboard, joined with maple rails and pine battens, retaining its maple folding tester and six rails, nine iron bar railings, and original red-stained, grain-painted surfaces throughout, 139cm wide, 200cm deep, 213cm high (55 1/4in wide, 79in deep, 84in high). Ht. excluding tester, 63 1/4 in.
Footnotes
Provenance
Michael Cinkala, New Boston, Massachusetts, 8 October 1992.
Literature
Illustrated in advertisement of David Dunton, Woodbury, Connecticut, Antiques 143/1 (January 1993): p. 58, and 154/4 (October 1998): p. 380.



