Rocking Chairs

Artist Allen Chair Company 1906 - 1956

Date1910 - 1930

Terms

Rocking Chairs
Brass
Velvet
Wool Fiber
Oak
Middlesex County (Massachusetts)

Dimensions96.45 × 60.91 × 78.68 cm (38 × 24 × 31 in.)

Credit LineGift of Nancy Joslin; Gift of the Cummings Davis Society

Object number1996.11

DescriptionOak, other woods, wool velvet, stamped brass. Four-part assembled seat frame open in the center, the opening covered with a thin board, skim coat of padding, and covering of green wool velvet with stamped brass trim stip imitating decorative tacking. Four turned legs are dowelled into the seat frame with two turned stretchers at the sides and front and one at the back; the legs are tenoned into curved rockers. Turned arm supports are screwed into the seat frame and extend below; a rod stretcher is tenoned into the lower extensions of the arm support below the seat. Three additional turned spindles support the flat scrolled arms, which are screwed to the rear stiles, which are themselves tenoned into the seat frame. The back consists of five arrow spindles between a lower rail tenoned into the stiles and the wise crest rail imposed over the stiles and screwed from the back; the crest rail has a padded panel like the seat.