Spindle-back rocking chair with splint seat, Hancock, MA

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Spindle-back rocking chair with splint seat, Hancock, MA

ca. 1800

Object ID:

1982.19521.1

Community:

Massachusetts, Hancock

Makers

Shaker

Description

Rocking chair that began life as a side chair. Maple posts, stretchers, back rails and spindles. Spindles are turned and split to form half-rounds. Seat of hickory splint. Rocker blade additions are elm. Unusual pommel. Originally painted (dark red?).

Notes

Rieman and Burks postulate that this is an early chair incorporating worldly style in the baluster spindle back but also the characteristic Shaker pommel finials.

Reference: Rieman, Timothy D. and Jean M. Burks. The Complete Book of Shaker Furniture. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1993. p. 143, fig. 67.

Massachusetts Hancock

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