Sleigh bed
The source documents this object as a Grecian Bedstead within the design-history material BEDU uses for later sleigh-bed terminology. BEDU does not relabel the museum object itself as a sleigh bed.
HISTORIC OBJECT / exact-year
Grecian Bedstead, 1841
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.
1841The Metropolitan Museum of Art2006.399a–r
FORM LINK / AUTHORITY VISIBLE
How BEDU connects this object
OBJECT FACTS
Sourced fields and explicit unknowns
- Date
- 1841 · exact-year
- Maker / designer
- D. Phyfe & Sons (maker, documented)
- Materials
- Rosewood veneer; secondary woods: ash and white pine
- Dimensions
42 × 95 1/2 × 61 1/4 in. (without casters); 106.7 × 242.6 × 155.6 cm
BEDU preserves the publication's unlabeled dimension order and its 'without casters' qualifier.
- Holding institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Accession / catalog ID
- 2006.399a–r
- Provenance completeness
- partialBEDU paraphrases the current source at chain level and does not claim complete location history for each owner.
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.
- documented historical placeMillford, Pine Woods, South Carolina, United States · documentedWorld scope: United StatesThe source documents the bedstead within John L. Manning's Millford furnishing program.
- 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
Documented as part of John L. Manning's 1841–42 D. Phyfe & Son furnishing order for Millford.
Millford, Pine Woods, South Carolina, United States - 02
The publication records descent through Manning-family descendants before the work entered The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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 ArtDuncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York — Millford / French and Grecian bedsteads · archival-record
BEDU024 / MATERIAL + MAKING
Object fact vs form taxonomy
Object fields remain object authority; form taxonomy remains navigation context.
Rosewood veneer; secondary woods: ash and white pine
Generic mapping: No safe generic material mapping stored
D. Phyfe & Sons (maker, documented)