MUSEUM / DOCUMENTED OBJECTS
A small provenance-first catalog of individually documented real bed objects. Missing maker, location, measurement, or provenance facts remain visibly unknown rather than being completed from generic form history.
CATALOG / SMALL BY DESIGN
BEDU does not transform every museum mention, painting, stool, generic bed form, or historical anecdote into an object record.
1590–1600 (constructed around 1590) / Documented object form
A monumental English four-poster bed constructed around 1590 and documented by the Victoria and Albert Museum; BEDU records the museum-supported object facts separately from broader four-poster history.
1760–90 / Documented object form
A cherry daybed in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, made in Connecticut and dated 1760–90; the object record combines Philadelphia- and Connecticut-associated craftsmanship while declining an unsupported maker attribution.
1841 / Contextual design-history link
A documented 1841 D. Phyfe & Sons Grecian bedstead made for the Millford furnishing program and now in The Metropolitan Museum of Art; BEDU links it to sleigh-bed history only as contextual design evidence, not as a title equivalence.
METHOD / CLAIM BOUNDARIES
A museum object can support facts about itself without proving the origin, prevalence, or full history of the form it resembles or is titled as.
Creation/origin place, documented historical place, current holding location, and provenance-chain location remain separate fields rather than one generic located-in value.
Missing makers, unlabeled dimension axes, incomplete ownership chains, and uncertain dates remain explicitly unresolved.
An object enters World of Beds through object-location-provenance only when the object source itself supports that location; generic form-to-region edges are never reused as object location proof.
ICU / CONNECTED DISCOVERY
These links come from ICU's bounded public recommendation graph. Bed-size market scope, compatibility authority, fit geometry, history, and evidence boundaries remain unchanged.
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