Antique American New England "Mammy" Rocking Windsor Rocking Bench Settee Original Paint 1835

A very fine antique New England painted & stenciled Windsor rocking settee, Circa 1835.
These rocking settees were historically known as a "Mammy benches" on which a mother or nanny could sit next to a cradled child. 

The settee is equipped with a removable retainer to also hold an infant, the tablet shaped crest-rail with a hand-painted & stenciled floral design with twelve bamboo turned & gilded spindles below. Curved armrests supported by three spindles each terminate in wide scrolls. A deep plank seat is rounded on the front edge. The front legs are baluster turned, while the rear legs are more simply taper turned, the front having a single splat stretcher with gilded line decoration. The rockers are tenoned into the legs, the retainer consists of two turned posts with ball finials and three horizontal turned rungs. 
The sette is in remarkable condition, all original paint, no damage or restoration to the frame, this splendid antique New England rocking Windsor settee is ready to grace your space. 

In the eighteenth & 19th centuries, an infant's caretaker was required to sit separately from the cradle and rock the infant by hand or with a foot. Rocking chair and cradle are combined in this unusual settee, made in New England about 1835. The caretaker can rock in the normal adult rocking motion, while the infant rocks from side to side as it would in a cradle. With the retainer removed, the piece becomes a rocking settee.

Seat Height 14.50"

Imperial

30 inches high × 48 inches wide × 27 inches deep

Metric

high × wide x deep

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