Charleston, South Carolina, 1800-1815
Mahogany with ash and white pine
Catalog no. 37
The form of this chair, like so many other pieces of southern furniture, appears to have been inspired by a British design manual. The splat and crest rail closely resemble those in a small image in “Houses & Chairs in perspective,” the illustration for a drafting lesson in Thomas Sheraton, Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing -Book (1793) (see graphic). That illustration seems to have been the inspiration for other southern chairs as well.