An almost identical side chair by Carl Aberg is illustrated S. Wallin, Nordiska Museets Möbler fran Svenska Lerremanshem, 1979, Vol. III, p. 148, fig. 1173 as is a very similar open armchair, fig. 1169. A similar design published by G. J. Lipp in his Meubles - Zeichnungen für Tischler, Berlin, 1831, is illustrated G. Himmelheber, Deutsch Möbelvorlagen 1800-1900, Munich, 1988, p. 418, fig. 2602. An almost identical set was sold Sotheby's New York, 16 May 1987, lot 117