A Chippendale Carved Mahogany Side Chair, New York

Possibly one of the set of twelve chairs that belonged to General George Washington's aide-de-camp General Samuel Blachley Webb of New York and Connecticut.

refinished, wear to knuckles on claws, slip seat frame replaced, proper right front leg square restored (leg broke out and repaired)
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See Joseph Downs, American Furniture: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods, (New York: The MacMillan Co., 1952), no. 150 and Charles F. Hummel, A Winterthur Guide to  American Chippendale Furniture: Middle Atlantic and Southern Colonies, (Winterthur, DE: The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1976), p. 22, fig. 8 for chairs from the same set.