Lot Essay
The chair's ribboned back, is fretted with a lozenged compartment, as featured in one of Thomas Chippendale's 'gothick' patterns in his Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1754 (pl. XXI). The splat also features on a related eagle-clawed chair illustrated in J. Kirk, American Furniture and the British Tradition to 1830, New York, 1982 (fig. 875).