Description:
Side or fancy chair, repainted white and gold, fitted with a rush seat and a back composed of a slightly curved flat rail, stenciled with a cornucopia design and suspended between two "rabbit-ear" posts, above four thin rails separated by three balls each above a single rail, all supported by a turned stretcher base with out curving front legs separated by a double front stretcher separated with balls similar to the chair back. The chair descended in the family of Margaret Collins Frary, who received it from Edith Stiles Hale (1870-1948-50?) of Hartford, Connecticut, the daughter of James W. Hale and Olive Rockwell Hale. Olive (b. 1842) was the daughter of Captain John E. Rockwell and Rahama Ayer, probably his first wife (he had five wives, and Marjorie Collins Frary was descended from the third wife). Captain Rockwell (1815-1881) a sea captain who sailed out of Mystic or Essex, Connecticut, was the probable owner of the chair. The crest rail and lower front stretcher are red, or soft, maple, the proper left rear leg is sugar, or hard, maple, the front seat rail is birch, and the apron around the seat is yellow-poplar.
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