Six Designs for a Child's Bed
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1630
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Six designs for a child's bed. At upper left, a cradle with a child in it stands upon a platform. Four statues support the canopy. At upper center, a trough-like bed with a child in it is fastened to a parapet which rises from a platform and upon which putti are intended to hold a canopy. The other end is intended to be carried by two putti. At upper right, a bedstead with a child in it stands in a kind of pavillion. At lower left, a bedstead with a child in it, in the shape of a ship on a platform. At lower center, a trough-like cradle. At lower right, a kind of bowl is supported by figures of chimaerae upon a platform.
place: label: made in
content: Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-88-918
objectType: label: Type
content: furniture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and ink, black chalk on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 24.9 × 40.1 cm (9 13/16 × 15 13/16 in.)