Rocking Chair

Unidentified Enfield Shaker maker (Enfield, New Hampshire), American, active 1793-1923

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about 1820-1845

Cane

Overall: 41 1/2 × 18 × 13 in. (105.4 × 45.7 × 33 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill

46.22.17564

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Furniture: Seating

Research Area

Decorative Arts

Not on view

Inscriptions

Initialed, on back of top splat: DH

Exhibition History

An Ever-Widening Circle of Friends, The Enfield Shaker Museum, Enfield, New Hampshire, May 30-October 31, 2006.

Shaker Joinery in New Hampshire, Spring Forum, Museum at Lower Shaker Village, Enfield, New Hampshire, April 12, 1997.

Webster Cottage, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.

Provenance

Collected by Frank C. (1850-1912) and Clara G. Churchill (1851-1945), Lebanon, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 1946.

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