An incised Roman numeral III is marked on both the slipseat and the chair frame. This chair is among a group of Tassel-back chairs associated with Van Rensselaer, so named because of the existance of at least four sets of this type owned by various branches of this distinguished New York family. The known Van Rensselaer chairs descended in the families of Stephen Van Rensselaer II (two sets), Jeremias Van Rensselaer, and a descendant of Killian Van Rensselaer (see Morrison H. Heckscher, American Furniture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, (New York, 1985), fig. 28). This example exhibits the splat pattern carving, motifs, and overall form associated with this group, distinguished as "best" in pleasing appearance, proportion, and execution by Albert Sack in, Fine Points of Furniture, (New York, 1950), p. 42.