A mid-Victorian bent-steel rocking chair

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A mid-Victorian bent-steel rocking chair
the scrolling padded arms flanking a leather sling seat

A similar metal rocking chair was exhibited at the display stand of Winfield & Co. at the 1851 Great Exhibition

Cf: Clive D Edwards, Victorian Furniture, Technology and Design, Manchester University Press, 1993, p.121

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