Chair, Rocking
- Object Name:
- Chair, Rocking
- Object ID:
- 1947.025.21
- Creator:
- Sawyer & Brown
- 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 four pieces. Stiles and main arm supports tenoned through seat. Front legs cylindrical, tapering at top, and having ring and ball turnings. Rear legs plain cylindrical, tapered at top and encircled by two evenly spaced, decorative grooves. Four turned stretchers, front one having central ball-and-ring turning, side and back stretchers cylindrical, each with two decorative grooves. Rockers original. Painted black with tortoise shell graining except on mahogany arms, yellow striping; ball turnings bronzed. Stencilled design in green, gold and bronze, on face of crest rail, having central anthemion-like motif with surrounding foliage and pineapple design near each end. "Sawyer [&] Brown" impressed on bottom of seat in upper case letters, within serrated border. Branded letters on bottom of seat, only partially legible, read "P or R.(?) T." Paper label with figure "330" on back of seat. Black paint chipped on crest and seat, exposing much of red undercoat. Seat split at left and repaired.
- Material:
- Wood
Pine - Dimensions:
- H-44.25 W-24.625 D-26.125 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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