With its tassel-back, eagle hand grip and gadrooned apron, this arm chair relates to a small group of tassel-backs made in several sets for New York families. For related examples see Morrison H. Heckscher, American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum (New York, 1985)p. 71, fig. 29, Joseph Downs, American Furniture Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods in The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum (New York, 1952), fig. 52.