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Description
The couch is the size of a regular love seat but lower than furniture made today. It is covered in gold crushed velvet and has a hand-carved upper back (on top of the covered back and hand-carved wood on front of the cruved sides. The arm chair is covered in blue crushed velvet with the same hand-carving on the top of the back and on the arms. The rocker sits on a carved wooden platform, is covered in the same gold fabric as the setee, and has matching carvings on the back, rocker platform, and arms. There are two side chairs covered in blue. These are straight-back chairs with identical carving on the top of the chair backs and legs.
Category
American Furniture
Medium
wood, crushed velvet upholstery
Distinguishing marks
hand-carved backs and arms
Condition
Excellent
Size and dimensions of this item
all pieces are ordinary size but lower than modern furniture, high backs
Date Period
1883
History
When my great-grandmother was pregnant with my grandmother, her brother, Tom, was engaged to a lady named Dora. They had this furniture made for their household in 1883. Dora died before they got married. When my grandmother was born, they named her Dora Thomas after the unlucky pair. Her Uncle Tom willed the furniture to my grandmother and my grandparents claimed it in 1908 when they got married. It was originally covered in black horse hide but my grandfather recovered it in green and red. They had the furniture for the whole 50+ years they were married. When my grandfather died in 1968, my mother took the furniture from Mississippi to Texas and had it recovered in blue and gold crushed velvet. When my mother died in 1999, I brought it to New Mexico.
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