NEW YORK, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

The arched crest of this chair, with its scrolling elements, is occasionally found on New York chairs from the late 17th and early 18th century, as seen in a chair in the collection of the Museum of the City of New York, illustrated in V. Isabelle Miller, Furniture by New York Cabinetmakers 1650-1860 (New York, 1956), p. 18, cat. no. 13.

A related chair, illustrated in the Decorative Arts Photographic Library (DAPC), Winterthur Museum (no. 71.473), exhibits a similar arched top with squared crest and scrolled terminals, similarly turned front stretcher and closely related turned stiles and legs.