Child's rocking chair
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1820
Materials
Birch, beech
Measurements
67 x 42 x 56 cm
Place of origin
England
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Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 882881
Summary
A birch child's open arm rocking chair, East Anglia, circa 1820. The back with three vertical bar splats and ball decorated horizontal splat, the scrolling arm terminals resting on turned supports, above a solid seat and square legs affixed to beech rockers.
Full description
The general characteristics of this chair are distinctive to East Anglia, but in particular the bar splat in combination with the button-back rail. See Bernard Cotton ' The English Regional Chair ', ACC, 1990, p 221, plate 32, for a chair with these similar features.
Provenance
Provenance unknown.
References
Cotton 1990: Bernard D. Cotton, The English Regional Chair, Woodbridge 1990, p 221, plate 32