Child's Board Rocking Chair

Maker unknown · United States · 1750–1800

Board construction—a furniture-making method in which pieces of wood are fitted together with rabbeted joints fastened with nails—was the easiest and least expensive way of making furniture in early America. Woodworkers with the most rudimental skills could and did make furniture in this manner from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. The technique was used primarily for simple chests but rarely for seating furniture, with the exception of chair tables, settles, and children's rocking chairs.

Medium

Yellow-poplar, white pine, soft maple

Dimensions

28.5 x 14.9 x 12.5 in. (72.4 x 37.9 x 31.8 cm) · Diam. 43 in. (109.2 cm)

Accession

1930.2293

Credit line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection