Step-down crest rail with over 14 spindles and bowed stiles with tapering arms with scrolled handholds supported by turned front post and simple secondary post; a plank seat with rounded front and grooved top; raised on 4 turned and incised splayed legs with rectangular front and back stretchers and bamboo turned side stretchers; shaped rockers all painted medium green.
cradle benches
multiple-seating furniture
pine (wood)
painting (coating)
maple (wood)
maple (wood)
Windsor chairs
pine (wood)
Maple
Pine
Painted
Windsor
SETTEE, ROCKING
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
New England
44 x 36.5 x 17 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1315
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