Settee
- Object Name:
- Settee
- Object ID:
- 1947.025.16
- Creator:
- Eaton, William Page (1819-1904)
- Date:
- circa 1850
- Description:
- Rocking Settee or "cradle rocker." Rod-back Windsor type. Rectangular crest rail extending beyond stiles at ends; turned and tapering cylindrical stiles; fourteen vertical, turned and tapering spindles. S-curved arms with rolled ends, each supported by two tapering spindles. Rectangular pine seat with slightly rounded corners. Front edge of seat is rounded on upper surface; both front and back edges of seat are beveled on lower surface. At left half of seat is a removable child retainer, consisting of three cylindrical rails framed between turned cylindrical stiles; latter fit into holes at front of seat which are shaped so that retainer cants forward. Four turned legs, each plain cylindrical and tapering to juncture with seat. Four stretchers at front and back, rectangular and attached to outside of legs; stretcher at sides plain and cylindrical. Painted black with off-white striping and some rosewood graining. Stenciled decoration on faces of crest rail and of front stretcher; repeated three times on crest rail is a bronze and orange fruit design flanked by elaborate foliated scrolls; stretcher has designs in bronze only, a stylized flower with foliage at center and designs at ends composed of dots, scrolls and teardrop-shaped elements. Unpainted arms, with finish badly worn. Stiles and main arm supports are tenoned through seat; main arm supports also tenoned through arms. Right rocker is replacement of oak.
- Material:
- Wood
- Dimensions:
- H-29.75 W-50.5 D-25.25 inches
- Provenance:
- Collected by Mary Thompson (Mason) Tilney (1855-1914), mother of the donor, from farm houses near her summer home in Pleasant Valley, NH (near Wolfeboro) between 1895 and 1913.
Stencil decoration may be the work of William Page Eaton (1819-1904) of Boston, MA, and New Boston, NH. - Credit Line:
- The Tilney Collection, Gift of Jessie M. Tilney, in Memory of Robert Fingland Tilney and Mary Mason Tilney
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