Featured 17th CENTURY (?) PHALLIC BED

I’d say more than few. I like it too. I’d put mine on it any night.

 

NOT A PENIS, NOR A CIGAR, NEITHER AN EARRING!

IT'S AN UTEERUS + VAGINA... WHAT A PLOT TWIST, MY FRIENDS!

 

Holy gender reassignment, Batman!

 

The original liquid - er wooden - sexuality.

So....a birthing bed?

 

some one needs to get laid......or become a surgeon........

 

I see a cross with quatrefoil ends and a roughly outlined cartouche around it:



Below the cross is a triple rose motif, often a reference to three women saints. The three women saints are the Christianized version of the pre-Christian 'Triple Mother Goddess'.
The imagery is quite common in folk art, but anyone can read into it what they want of course.

I guess it is like looking at clouds. There is no proof for what people see in clouds, and there is certainly no proof of this bed being like a page from a medical encyclopedia.

Agree!

 

GEE WIZ! Much ado about very little in my opinion.
The top half of the headboard appears added to me, it's a totally different color with carving that is crude & does not match the lower portion.
If it is oak as claimed then it's not likely a period 17th-century piece from either Spain or Portugal, if period would more likely be Walnut. It's my understanding Spain had plentiful native supplies of walnut but very little if any oak, hence, most early furniture is walnut as oak had to be imported from France or England.
Guesses a Spanish colonial revival piece, 19th century that's been heavily "restored" or altered and, not in a good way.

Spain, 17th-century in Walnut

 

Spain was for a long time the world's biggest exporter of ... cork...

 

Someone is boring haha

 

I can say a lot about komo, but being boring isn't one of them.
This thread is becoming a bit boring though, so I wish you well and leave you with another anatomy lesson, since you seem to enjoy them so much.
This one is 17th century:

 

Very, nice! I didn't know about it. It seems like a cross and yes there's a triple rose motif, very interesting, but we doesn't need to discart the uterus hypothesis... I think they can coexist and dialogue, it makes sense... I don't know why you guys get so annoyed by the human anatomy... I thought this was an antiques forum not a Christian church...

 

I am not Christian (neither is komo), but some things just get tedious imo.
Enjoy the anatomy lesson.

 

Thank you for all these infos! Any info is too much. Other people told me that this is walnut, it's kind of a greyish wood... Yes for sure the top half was added, but it wasn't like yesterday, but I can't say when. The bed you show as an example is a noble one, I know many portuguese bobbin beds, but this one is for sure a peasant/provincial one, it is totally crude... But that's the problem, because it us not an upper class item we don't have many infos about it.

 

Ok, you're not forced to read or answer... Slow down... I liked your infos a lot and took them for granted, but there are many possibilities and I don't have any problem with genitals haha