Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
2004.39.003
Accession#:
2004.39
Credit Line:
Donated by the Kenway/Donaldson Family.
Object Name:
Chair
Title:
Victorian parlor upholstered rocking chair
Description:
Upholstered Victorian parlor chair with rockers. Chair is upholstered with green—gray fabric attached with tacks at the perimeter. Seat has springs. Back of chair has flat top, crowned with a large wooden scroll with foliage/floral designs in the corners. Curved arms have floral/foliate supports, doweled construction and leaves at the top corners. Four plain, slight curved legs connect to two rocker runners with long tails. Probably mahogany
Notes:
This is part of a four—piece set. There is another chair on caster at the Museum (.004) and then two pieces still in storage in Juneau, in the possession of the Kenway—Donaldson Family but not yet donated. Virginia Kenway wants the set to stay together, and wants to donate the other two pieces (may be another chair and a settee?) to the Museum soon. Curator Ellen Carrlee spoke to Steve Henrikson, curator at the ALASKA STATE MUSEUM, who said there is very little in the way of Gold Rush ear Victorian furniture in any collections in southeast Alaska, and this is historically valuable material even though it is in poor condition. He recommended keeping it. Former JDCM curator/director Mary Pat Wyatt advised the same when she brought these two chairs to the museum. She felt it would be our best opportunity to get furniture from this period that had a provenance. There is a chair arm, several wooden bits, and four casters at the Museum in the fragment file.
People:
Snow, Crystal; Jenne, Charles; Donaldson, Virginia; Kenway, David
Search Terms:
furniture
home life