An almost identical encoignure with some additional mounts, said to have belonged to Colonel James Swan, was sold Sotheby's New York, 27 October 1990, lot 88. Colonel Swan emigrated to Boston from Scotland circa 1765 and later became the official agent for the French Government for buying supplies in the United States. The Swan encoignure was exhibited Lafayette, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 3 December 1975-12 March 1976, no. 20, illustrated. Most of Colonel Swan's furniture is now in the Boston Museum of Fine Art.