Lot Essay
The chair splat's corded tassel relates to that indicated in the centre of a 'Ribband back' parlour chair in Thoms Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, London, 1754, (pl.XVI). A related English and New York parlour chair, with similar scallop-festooned tassel, is illustrated in J. Kirk, American Furniture and The British Tradition, New York, 1982 (figs. 933 and 934).