Archive for the ‘Cradles and Cribs’ Category

bookcase with desk roll-up door, 1900-1920 oak furniture, walnut display cupboard

Friday, February 26th, 2010

A few smaller settees, of about five feet, were made but these are uncommon. There are drawings for a ‘Confidante’ and a ‘Duchesse’, which were both popular in France at the sheffield knife with bone handle, townsend time. the can broken resin chairs be glued back together first consists of a large settee with a [...]

Antique Cots, Cradles and Cribs

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

COTS, CRADLES AND CRIBS
Today the term ‘cradle’ describes a baby’s bed which rocks, either standing at floor level on two curved rockers, or suspended between two uprights, A cot or crib (the latter now an American term) implies the
high-sided bed on legs, with sides of equal height, which was first devised for toddlers around 1800. [...]