These chairs are related to
documented chairs made in the Duncan Phyfe workshop for his daughter on the occurance of
her marriage and is illustrated in the Nancy McClelland work, Duncan Phyfe and the
English Regency 1795-1830, p.126. plate 109.
Also, a
chair from a similar set was in the exhibition, 19th Century America at the
Metropolitain Museum of Art.
These chairs of the Klismos form and have a finely shaped saber leg and serpentine seat
rail. The crest rail is also shaped, molded, and continuous with the chair style, which
continually becomes wider, from their copside, and more shaped as it descends through to
the side rails.