Chair, Rocking
- Object Name:
- Chair, Rocking
- Object ID:
- 1982.029
- Place of Origin:
- Manchester, NH
- Date:
- 1847-1852
- Description:
- Chair, rocking. Tablet-top Windsor style. Painted and grained black and brown. Tablet crest has rounded ends, and two lunettes cut along the bottom (yoke shaped). Seven spindles. Seat is pine plank (1.5" thick), with scroll front and raised back. Front legs decoratively turned. Front stretcher decoratively turned; side and rear stretchers plain turned (turnings may be butternut). Rockers inserted into slots in legs, and nailed. Stencilled under seat: "FROM. / MOOERS & TIBETTS. / NO. 8 / MERRIMACK.BLOCK / MANCHESTER, N.H.". Illegible chalk mark on top of stencil. Paint extensively flaked; varnish coat over paint. Evidence of prior red paint in grooves.
- Material:
- Wood
Pine
Butternut - Dimensions:
- H-34.25 W-19.5 D-29 inches
- Provenance:
- Mooers & Tibbetts -- furniture selling and warehouse business, Manchester, N.H., 1847-1852.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase
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