This chair with its cupid's bow crest, highly shaped solid vasiform splat, double serpentine front seat rail and trifid feet represents a design commonly recognized as Philadelphia, and historically attributed to the shop of William Savery. Several related examples exist in various museum collections, including the Garvan Collection (See Kane, 300 Years of American Seating Furniture, (Boston, 1976), p. 91, fig. 71) and Colonial Williamsburg (bearing a Savery label, see Comstock, American Furniture, (Exton, PA, 1962), fig. 176). Two other related examples are in Hornor, one also bearing a Savery label but representing a variation from the Colonial Williamsburg example (Hornor, Blue Book Philadelphia Furniture, (Washington, D.C., 1935, rpt. 1977), pls. 313 and 314); another example with a Savery inscription is illustrated in American Antiques from the Israel Sack Collection, Brochure no. 16, (December, 1968), no. 1077). Interestingly, two chairs in the collection of the Chester County Historical Society with documentation to that county also show a marked similarity with the example illustrated here, demonstrating the pervasiveness of the design beyond Philadelphia (see Kindig, The Philadelphia Chair, 1685-1785, (York, PA, 1978), fig. 33; and Schiffer, Furniture and Its Makers of Chester County, Pennsylvania, (Exton, PA, 1978), fig. 117).