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Armless child's Boston Rocker with S-scrolled plank seat; five-spindle back surmounted by simple yoke crest rail decorated with rosewood graining and stenciled with fruit bowl and floral motif.
Boston rockers
chairs (furniture forms)
graining
maple (wood)
pine (wood)
floral patterns
fruit bowls
maple (wood)
pine (wood)
Maple
Pine
Grained
Fruit Bowl
Floral
CHAIR, ROCKING
Marked on bottom in pencil: ""Mrs. George Barrell___________7811? Bessy St.""
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
31 x 16.5 x 16.25 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.364
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