A similar chair with carved beaded Gothic arch, bellflowers and feathered plume, stamped "S. Badlam" is discussed and illustrated in Charles F. Montgomery, American Furniture: The Federal Period, 1788-1825 (New York, 1966), p. 86, no. 30; also see, W.M. Hornor, Jr., Blue Book, Philadelphia Furniture (Washington, D.C., 1935), pl. 396.