NEW YORK STATE, LATE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

The interlaced diamond-patterned splat is based on a well-known English design and this chair most closely relates to one in the Museum of the City of New York (accession #51.117.87). For similar examples see V. Isabelle Miller, Furniture by New York Cabinetmakers (Museum of the City of New York, 1957), fig. 44; John T. Kirk, American Chairs, Queen Anne and Chippendale (New York, 1972), p. 118, fig. 140; and, Morrison Heckscher, American Furniture, Colonial Period: The Queen Anne and Chippendale Styles (New York, 1985), fig. 26.