Chair, Rocking

Object Name:

Chair, Rocking

Date:

1820-1825

Material:

Wood

Dimensions:

H-41.5 W-20 D-24 inches

Description:

Rocking chair. Windsor, comb-back. Black paint with gold highlights on arms, arrow spindles, and bamboo turnings (some faux bamboo turnings). Stencil or hand-painted floral design on headrest and lower rail, done in red, white, green, and gold. Curved armrests that end with round handholds. Evidence of prior yellow and green paint. Rockers are well worn.

Provenance:

Rocking chair from the home of Samuel Willey Jr., Willey House, Crawford Notch, NH. The chair survived in the house at the time of the landslide of August 28, 1826. The chair was soon thereafter sold at auction to James Bean, Bethlehem, NH. (see accession file for notarized affidavit testifying to the authenticity of the chair).
Owner, F. A. Burrows, inherited the chair from her father, Fred W. Alexander of Whitefield, NH, who bought it in 1929 from Sarah R. Timson of Lunenburg, VT, who inherited it from her grandfather, James Bean of Bethlehem, NH, who purchased it at the Willey House auction.

Subjects:

Rocking chairs, Willey House, Willey Slide

People:

Bean, James, Willey, Samuel (c.1754-1844), Timson, Sarah R. (c. 1863- )

Collection Name:

Inventory

Item Number:

1984.089

Accession Number:

1984.089

Type of Material:

Objects

Copyright Statement:

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Credit Line:

New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase

Participating Organization:

New Hampshire Historical Society