Rocking chair
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1770
Materials
Oak
Measurements
106 x 71 x 75 cm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1332298
Summary
An oak rocking wing armchair, English, circa 1770. With a shaped toprail and flattened arms, the panelled box-seat with hinged lid, on rockers. In notebook no.4, page 110 (NT 1340945.4) Charles Wade refers to: 'Mizzen 97 Old Winged Chair of oak. Set on rockers fr. Sudbury Suff.' Includes sketch.
Provenance
Purchased in Sudbury, Suffolk. 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 110