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Barrel-back wing chair with rockers, high rounded back and outturned arms; deep seat with cushion; red-painted maple square splayed legs on pointed rockers with wooden pegs; chair covered with modern upholstery in "salmon and off-white tweed."
rocking chairs
chairs (furniture forms)
maple (wood)
painting (coating)
upholstering
maple (wood)
Maple
Painted
Upholstered
CHAIR, ROCKING
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
43.5 x 28 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1468
1800-1850 (Possibly)
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