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Collection Online as of December 19, 2025

Bed frame with ornately patterned, gilded wood connecting and outlining a headboard and footboard, rectangular with an arch along the upper center edge. The headboard is slightly taller than the footboard. Silver-grey satin embroidered with faded pink, blue, and green flowers covers both. Embroidered in the middle of the footboard is a straw hat with a pink ribbon. Upper center on the backboard, a bird dangles a worm over five baby birds in a nest.

Bed

1700s
made by

attributed to Georges Jacob

(French, 1739–1814)
France, 18th century
gilded wood and embroidered satin
Overall: 213.4 cm (84 in.); Part 1: 163.2 x 147.3 cm (64 1/4 x 58 in.); Part 2: 132.7 x 147.3 cm (52 1/4 x 58 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1954.151
Location: Not on view
  • 1954-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Milliken, W. (1954). A French Eighteenth-Century Bed. The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 41(6). pp. 118-124 www.jstor.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 315 archive.org
    Mallett, Donald. The Greatest Collector: Lord Hertford and the Founding of the Wallace Collection. London: Macmillan, 1979. p. 197
    Ball, Victoria Kloss. Architecture and Interior Design. New York: Wiley, 1980. Fig. 2.26, p. 73
    Piña, Leslie A. Furniture in History, 3000 B.C.-2000 A.D. Boston: Prentice Hall, 2010. p. 14
  • {{cite web|title=Bed|url=false|author=Georges Jacob|year=1700s|access-date=19 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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