Lot 418
An American Carved Mahogany Rocking Chair, mid-19th c., attributed to Devereaux Day, chalk inscription "D. J. Day" under seat, tall shaped back, padded arms on bold scroll supports, serpentine seat, saber leg rocker base, height 40 in., width 30 in., depth 24 in. Exhibition History: "Sankofa," various exhibitions, including Harriet Tubman African-American Museum, Macon, GA; DuSable Museum, Chicago, IL; Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, LA, Dec. 1994-Mar. 1995; The Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD; Hampton University, Hampton, VA; The African American Museum, Dallas, TX; and others; The New Orleans African American Museum of Art, Culture, and History, New Orleans, LA. Note: Thomas Day's elder son, Devereaux (b. 1833), helped his father in his workshop during his teens; both Thomas and Devereaux are listed as cabinetmakers in the 1850 United States Federal Census. The current lot is one of the pieces Devereaux worked on in 1850-51 before he left his father's workshop to attend Wesle an Academy in Wilbraham, Massachusetts, which was a religious preparatory institution run by abolitionist Methodists. This rocking chair is similar to some of Thomas Day's later rockers, with its low seat, curved back, and cut-out sides. Reference: Reproduced in Marshall, Patricia P. and Jo R. Leimenstoll. Thomas Day: Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010, p. 98.
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