Bed

Published/Created:: Pennsylvania, United States
ca. 1740–1770
Physical Description:: 76 x 50 1/2 x 75 in.
Materials:: Tulip poplar; paint; iron
Notes:: Sack catalogue description: Chippendale tulip poplar pencil-post bed retaining the original blue-green paint, the head and footposts taper to a rare thinness at the top of 3/8 of an inch, the peaked headboard and footboard have cyma-curved ends; the pillow boards are replaced but the evidence of their original presence offers a rare variation, the tester frame and the rails are original and also retain the blue-green paint, the rails retain the original hand-wrought iron bed bolts. One of the finest pencil-post beds in any museum or private collection.
-----
Bibliography: Book: American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Highland House Publishers, 1957–1990), vol. 4, p. 875, pl. P3543.
Variant Titles:: Chippendale tulip poplar pencil-post bed
Topics:: Decoration and ornament -- Chippendale style
Furniture -- United States
Period/Style:: Chippendale
Culture:: American
Accession Number:: 3543
Genre:: pencil-post beds (AAT)
tester beds (AAT)
Format:: Image
Physical Object
Content Type:: Furnishings & Decorative Arts
Prints & Photographs
Rights:: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement
Access Restrictions:: Public
Source Title:: Israel Sack, Inc., Archive
Source Created:: New York, New York, United States
1957–1990
Source Note:: Sack, November 1972
This information is taken from the Israel Sack Furniture Archive and may not reflect current scholarship.
Folder:: Folder 9689 box 2 tiff_complete
Yale Collection:: Yale University Art Gallery
Digital Collection:: Israel Sack Furniture Archive
oid pointer:: 10983590
OID:: 11879459
PID:: digcoll:848005