Two ring-turned posts with ball finials enclosing three arched slats which are joined to turned front posts by tapering arms and rush seat; simple rockers; brown paint.
rocking chairs
chairs (furniture forms)
ash (wood)
oak (wood)
painting (coating)
rush (material)
rush (material)
Children's furnishing
Oak
Ash
Rush
Painted
CHAIR, ROCKING, CHILD'S
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
20 x 16.25 x 16 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1533
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