cradle benches
Identification code: 300121308
Hierarchy classification:
- top of the aat hierarchies
- Objects Facet
- Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
- Furnishings (hierarchy name)
- furnishings (works)
- [furnishings by form or function]
- furniture
- [furniture by form or function]
- seating furniture
- multiple-seating furniture
- benches (furniture)
- [benches by form or function]
Alternative term/s
- benches, cradle
- benches, mammas'
- benches, mammies'
- benches, rocking
- cradle bench
- mammas' benches
- mammies' benches
- mammies' rockers
- rockers, mammies'
- rocking benches
- rocking settees
- settees, rocking
Anotations
Scope note:
Popular American term for mid-19th-century benches on rockers, with detachable fences two thirds of their length so that a baby could lie on the seat without rolling off, while the mother sat beside it.
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