Begovácz Rózsa – Burján István – Vándor Andrea: Folk Art in Baranya County (Pécs, 2008)

Interieurs, Furniture

bed. With the help of the hinge the back could be toppled over on the other side of the seat. In the daytime the back was on the side of the bed. At night the baby or the young child was put on the bench, so the back was toppled over on the outer side to prevent the baby from falling off. Earlier the function of the bed was to store the bedcloth. The decorative high-stacked bed origins in the piled up bedcloth. Although there could be a decorative bed stacked high to the ceiling, the sleeping-place of peasants was on the earthen floor of the house even in the nineteenth century. The painted ends were similar to the rest of the furniture. The cradle was not a permanent equipment of the house, it did not have a constant place in the room, it was taken out from the attic or the shed when a baby was born. The same applied to the go-cart. People most frequently used the footed cradle, with a number of variations. The reason is that cradles were made by men with all kinds of trades connected to wood: fiddlers made simple, undecorated ones, specialists and handicraftsmen carved ones, joiners made painted ones. Cradles were scarcely decorated the same way as the rest of the furniture in the room. Cradle/ R.n. 52.1041.1 / h. 37 cms / I. 86 cms / w. 44 cms. / Tormás 20