White with gilt decoration. Turned legs with frontal stretcher forming decorated foot rest. Short rockers inserted into notches in legs. Scrolled seat. Mahogany arms supported by turned arm rests. Stiles enclose spindles, surmounted by yoked crest with yellow grapes and gilt leaves.
Boston rockers
chairs (furniture forms)
gilding
leaf (plant material)
foliation (pattern)
leaf (metal)
mahogany (wood)
painting (coating)
turning (shaping process)
wood (plant material)
vine scrolls
leaf (plant material)
foliation (pattern)
leaf (metal)
Mahogany
Boston
Painted
Gilded
Turned
Grape
Leaf
CHAIR, ROCKING
Original to Hamilton House (South Berwick, Me.),
Unknown
43 x 23.75 x 24 (HxWxD) (inches)
Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan
1949.909
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