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Cottage style rocking chair with carved flat crest rail decorated with center gold painted filigree, turned rear posts enclose four turned spindles, plain rectangular chair rail, shaped seat with caned interior, turned front posts and turned column and ring front stretchers. Remaining five stretchers plain turned, rectangular rockers, chair painted dark green with elements outlined in black and turning accented in gold.
rocking chairs
chairs (furniture forms)
caning
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
turning (shaping process)
wood (plant material)
pine (wood)
Chair
Chair, Child's
Children's furnishing
Painted
Pine
Caned
Turned
Chair, Child's
From 'the Nursury' at 'Roseland' Jane used to rock 'the baby' in it
Original to Roseland Cottage (Woodstock, Conn.),
Unknown
28.75 x 16.5 x 23 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Margaret Carson Holt
1970.449
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