Pennsylvania, 1740-1750, with solid splat and cabriole legs with lambrequin carved knees, burgundy upholstery, 40-1/2 x 21 x 19 in.

Provenance: underside of seat rail inscribed "Mrs. J.A. Haskell" (red accession number on rear seat rail, 1977.184); Mount Vernon Museum and Garden; sold Sotheby's, New York, May 23rd, 2002, lot 241; Property from the Collection of Dudley and Constance Godfrey

Note: This side chair is identical to an example bearing later labels that read "[mad]e by Edward Wright, living between Chestnut and Market Street in fourth Street the _0 day of May 1749 Philadelphia, Pa." and "These chairs were the Property of Robert Montgomery, (2nd) of Eglinton, Upper Freehold, Monmouth Co. New Jersey from whence they were bought [brought] Jonathan." As furniture scholar Alan Miller has noted, this chair is from the same shop that produced the Godfrey slipper foot easy chair in this sale, and the specificity and wording of the first label strongly suggests that the information was taken from an earlier document (Alan Miller, "Flux in Design and Method in Early Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia Furniture," in American Furniture, edited by Luke Beckerdite ([Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England for the Chipstone Foundation, 2014], p. 65, fig. 48).