Rocking chair
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1780
Materials
Pine, sycamore arms and front uprights, lime or fruitwood wings, ash rockers, brass handle
Measurements
107 x 65 x 66 cm
Place of origin
England
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1332137
Summary
A rocking wing armchair, English, circa 1780. Made of various timbers including pine, sycamore and lime or fruitwood. Curved back with shaped top edge, flattened arms and a drawer with metal loop handle beneath the seat. On ash rockers. In notebook no.4, page 27 (1340945.4) Charles Wade refers to: 'Anns Room 89. Chair with concave winged back, drawer under seat on rockers, of pine, exactly like No.3 in Kitchen living room, House in Courtyard'. CPW Notebook entry: 'Two cottage wing-back 'shepherd's' rocking chairs, c.1800. a) limewood b) made in ash, bought from G.A. Parkhurst, Crawley, 1919'. See also NT 1331916 for the other example.
Provenance
Bought from G.A. Parkhurst, Crawley in 1919 for £12 (for two chairs, the other being NT 1331916). Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 4 First and Second Floor, 1944, page 27