Description:
Field bed covered with a painted off-white ground. Field (or camp) beds were portable beds, usually with arched, folding testers, which could be easily set up or taken apart. The bed, which descended in the Williams family of Deerfield, was probably owned by Dr. Stephen West Williams (1790-1855), who married Harriet Goodhue of Newcastle, New Hampshire in 1818. Painted bedsteads with matching sets of furniture were popular after 1800. This bed originally had a matching white and gold dressing table and set of chairs. There is a plain, short headboard; arched tester with two stretchers; and plain turned head posts. The turned foot posts have ring turnings on the top; over a fluted urn shape; over a ring turning; over a plain urn shape with foliate decoration in green, gold, red, brown, and black; over baluster and ring turned legs with a pointed, ball-shaped foot.
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