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Delaware Valley 5-Slat Rocking Chair
The vast majority of period chairs on rockers were converted at some point long after they were made. This chair is the exception that shows every sign of having been made to be a rocker. The bottoms of the legs are tapered, the underside of the foot shows lathe chuck marks, and the wood grain on the underside of the feet is completely open, indicating that the feet spent no time on the ground. In addition, without the cherrywood rockers, which have an early profile, the seat height would be 13”—impossible unless it was made as a slipper chair, in which case it wouldn’t have had arms. With the rockers, the seat height is over 16”. Maple with cherry rockers and an early, if probably not original, mustard painted rush seat.
$550
