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Rocking Chair

Collection Type

  • Furniture

Date

1830-1850

GUSN

GUSN-11627

Description

Rocking chair. Rosewood grained. Floral stenciled crest rail and gold pinstriping. shaped yoke crest spindle back; unstained arms; scrolled seat. Rests on turned splayed legs,

Details

Descriptive Terms

rocking chairs
chairs (furniture forms)
graining
pine (wood)
stenciling
pine (wood)
Children's furnishing
Pine
Painted
Stenciled
Boston
CHAIR, ROCKING

Associated Building

Original to Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm (Newbury, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

26 x 15 3/8 x 19 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Bequest of Amelia W. Little

Accession Number

1986.619

Places

Massachusetts (United States)

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