Daybed
The museum's object title is Daybed.
HISTORIC OBJECT / range
Daybed, American, 1760–90
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.
1760–90The Metropolitan Museum of Art10.125.178
FORM LINK / AUTHORITY VISIBLE
How BEDU connects this object
OBJECT FACTS
Sourced fields and explicit unknowns
- Date
- 1760–90 · range
- Maker / designer
- Unknown in current sourceThe current Met record does not identify a maker; its curatorial note says an attribution to Eliphalet Chapin cannot be sustained.
- Materials
- Cherry
- Dimensions
43 1/2 × 24 7/8 × 74 1/2 in. (110.5 × 63.2 × 189.2 cm)
The current BEDU source presents an unlabeled dimension triplet, so BEDU preserves published order instead of assigning width/length/height semantics that are not explicit in the retrieved record.
- Holding institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Accession / catalog ID
- 10.125.178
- Provenance completeness
- partialThe current BEDU record does not claim a complete ownership chain.
PLACE / ROLE-SPECIFIC
Object location semantics
Creation/origin place, historical place, current holding, and provenance-chain locations are separate assertions. None is inferred from a generic form→region edge.
- creation origin placeConnecticut, United States · documentedWorld scope: United States
- current holding locationThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States · documentedWorld scope: United States
PROVENANCE CHAIN / partial
Provenance chain: what the current source actually tracks
- 01
Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909.
EVIDENCE
Museum/archive sources
Object fields cite the museum/archive source that supports them; BEDU does not reuse generic form evidence as object provenance.
- The Metropolitan Museum of ArtDaybed, American, 1760–90 · archival-record
BEDU024 / MATERIAL + MAKING
Object fact vs form taxonomy
Object fields remain object authority; form taxonomy remains navigation context.
Cherry
Generic mapping: Solid wood
Unknown in current source