This sidechair is directly adapted from plate XIII and plate XIV of the 1762 edition of Thomas Chippendale's Director. Several variants of this chair exist and as a group represent the most elaborate and animated interpretations of Chippendale designs and epitomize the delicate foliate embellishments associated with the Rococo style.

A closely related sidechair and an armchair now in the Garvan Collection, Yale University Art Gallery are illustrated in Patricia E. Kane, Three-Hundred Years of American Seating Furniture (Boston, 1976), pp. 106-111, figs. 90 and 93. While these examples lack the incised and carved front rail, they have nearly identical carved splats, crestrails and knees, and were apparently all made in the same shop. Another related armchair, now in the collection of the Winterthur Museum is illustrated and discussed in Joseph Downs, American Furniture: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods (New York, 1952), no. 50. Another example with a plain front seatrail from the
Collection of Abram R. and Blanche M. Harpending was sold at Sotheby's, February 1, 1985, Lot 609. Another example, with a scalloped front seatrail, is illustrated and discussed in American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, (Washington, DC, 1965), Vol. II, p. 313, no. 774 and detail.