Lot Essay
A virtually identical chair, possibly from the same set, is in the Winterthur Collection and is illustrated in Joseph Downs,American Furniture, Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods (New York, 1952), fig. 147. See also an armchair at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with virtually identical splat and knees illustrated in Morrison H. Hecksher, American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1985, pp. 75-77). Purchased from Christie's, New York, October 19, 1991, lot 203