A SHAKER MAPLE CHILD'S ROCKER

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A SHAKER MAPLE CHILD'S ROCKER
AMERICAN, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

The cylindrical stiles with turned acorn finials centering the arched slats above a woven seat, on cylindrical front legs with rounded tops, joined by cylindrical box stretchers (left rocker replaced)--28 1/2in. high, 15in. wide, 12in. deep

Lot Essay

This chair is related to an "armless rocker no. 3" from a production catalogue offered by Shaker community manufacturers to customers in the outside world. See Charles R. Muller and Timothy D. Rienman, The Shaker Chair, (Ohio, 1984), p. 182.