Chair, Rocking

#3 production rocking chair, armless, South Family, Mount Lebanon, NY

Object ID:
1956.8190.1
Community:
New York, Mount Lebanon
Description

#3 production rocking chair. Maple; wool and cotton tape seat and back. Plain woven taped seat top and front of back; twill woven underside to seat and back of back. Pink and beige seat tape probably original (by same hand that taped seat of #13859). Beige tape is herringbone weave wool tape, badly damaged by moth/carpet beetles, while pink tape is cotton and undamaged by insects; both badly faded and soiled. Chair stained dark red-brown and varnished (?) over. Label decal on inside of right rocker.

New York Mount Lebanon South Family

New York Mount Lebanon South Family

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