Chair, Maple, white oak, 17 1/4 × 8 7/8 × 8 3/8 in. ( × × cm), This child’s rocking chair demonstrates both the persistence of the slat-back chair form into the nineteenth century and the practice of incorporating elements of higher-style furniture into popular products. The chair adopts the idea of flattening the front faces of the back posts that was introduced on fancy painted furniture in the second decade of the nineteenth century. , Made in United States, American, 19th century, Furniture

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