This impressive armchair is one of approximately a dozen surviving first-generation mushroom pommeled armchairs from the Norwich area (see Albert Sack, The New Fine Points of Furniture: Early American, Good, Better, Best, Superior, (New York: Crown Publishers, 1993), p. 24; David B. Warren, American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection, (Houston: Museum of Fine Arts; Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998), pp. 2-3, no. F2; Benno M. Forman, American Seating Furniture, 1630-1730: An Interpretive Catalogue, (New York: W.W. Norton, 1988), pp. 124-28; Barry A. Greenlaw, New England Furniture at Williamsburg, (Williamsburg, VA; distributed by University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville 1974), no. 33; Irving Whitall Lyon, The Colonial Furniture of New England : A Study of the Domestic Furniture in Use in the Seventeenth, (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1925), fig. 58; Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, American Furniture at Chipstone, (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984), no. 74).