With their distinctive rosette and table-carved stop-fluted legs, the design of these chairs directly relates them to the work of Adam Hains' shop in Philadelphia. Plate 9 of George Hepplewhite's third edition, The Cabinetmaker and Upholsterer's Guide (London, 1794) shows an ornately carved and French-inspired tablet-back chair with similarly treated turned, fluted and carved legs headed by a rosette-embellished tablet which may have been at least one source of Hains' design. A set of chairs with Hains' label made for the Lyman Family of Waltham, Massachusetts and a set of chairs made for the Craigie Family of Cambridge, Massachusetts with identical cylindrical stop-fluted legs strengthens the attribution of these chairs to Adam Hains, and attests to the continued important coastal trade between Philadelphia and Boston (see lot 342; see also Kathleen Catalano and Richard C. Nylander, "New Attributions to Adam Hains, Philadelphia Furniture Maker," The Magazine Antiques, vol. CXVI, no. 5, May 1980, pp. 1112-1116.)

Several slipper chairs both documented and attributed to Adam Hains are in museum and private collections. An armchair with identical base bearing Hains' label is in the collection of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities. A similar pair of slipper chairs attributed to Hains is in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Two related attributed pairs of chairs are illustrated in American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, vol. 2, brochure 13, April 1965, p. 326, no. 813 and brochure 16, December 1968, p. 442, fig. 1103. A third related attributed pair of chairs sold Sotheby's New York, October 22, 1995, lot 143.