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Rocking chair

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Object Details

Description

the high back and seat with undulating oak slats nailed to cross bars of curved hickory branches, with side supports, arms, legs and stretchers of curved bent hickory branches, on curved oak rockers

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart P. Feld

Date

1900–1930

Accession Number

2014-44-1

Restrictions & Rights

Usage conditions apply

Type

furniture
Decorative Arts
Rocking chair

Medium

steamed, bent sawn oak slats, nailed to bent hickory wood bark-covered branches

Dimensions

H x W x D: 108 × 53.3 × 83.8 cm (42 1/2 in. × 21 in. × 33 in.)

made in

Indiana, USA

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
Product Design and Decorative Arts Department

Data Source

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Metadata Usage

Not determined

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq49d102a2d-9fef-4903-b6b7-a74001a26514

Record ID

chndm_2014-44-1

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