Chair, Rocking
- Object Name:
- Chair, Rocking
- Object ID:
- 1947.025.20
- Place of Origin:
- New England
- Date:
- circa 1840
- Description:
- Rocking Arm Chair. "Boston rocker" type, with bowed crest rail extending beyond stiles at ends and having slightly arched top, ogee curved ends and straight lower edge with arched indentation near each end. Turned and tapering cylindrical stiles; seven similarly shaped and conforming, vertical spindles. S-curved arms each supported by two tapering spindles. White pine seat rolled up at back and down at front with ogee curved sides. Seat constructed in 4 pieces. Front legs cylindrical, tapering at top, and having ring and flattened ball turnings. Rear legs plain, cylindrical and tapering at tops. Four turned stretchers, front one having central ball-and-ring turnings, side and back stretchers all plain and cylindrical. Rockers original. Stiles and main arm supports tenoned through seat. Painted black with tortoise shell graining except arms which are painted red and center of seat which is grained in yellows, browns and greens with pattern of segmented swirl. This seat design has sponged front and side borders and shows evidence of "vinegar painting" technique having been used. Ball turnings bronzed; yellow striping. Stencilled bronze decoration on crest rail and rolled seat front; crest rail had central design of pineapple with surrounding foliage and single flower design at each end; stylized floral design on seat front. Branded letters on bottom of seat, only partially legible, red "P. or R.(?) T." Paper label with accession information on underside of seat.
- Material:
- Wood
- Dimensions:
- H-42.5 W-24.125 D-28 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.
- Credit Line:
- The Tilney Collection, Gift of Jessie M. Tilney, in Memory of Robert Fingland Tilney and Mary Mason Tilney
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