Side chair
Family history maintains Abigail McLean of Wilmington, Delaware purchased a set of eight Gothic-splat side chairs at Mount Vernon in the 1850s, with the understanding they had been owned by George and Martha Washington. Daniel Lammot, also of Wilmington, later purchased four of these eight chairs, three of which have since returned to Mount Vernon. Whether or not the Washingtons originally owned them remains to be proven.
See also chairs W-1464/B and W-4180.
Reproduction ethafoam slip-seat upholstered in pale blue (now faded to white) silk damask with a central palm-tree pattern.
Published ReferencesMarion Day Iverson, The American Chair, 1630-1890 (New York: Hastings House, 1957), 213.
William Macpherson Honor, Jr., Blue Book, Philadephia Furniture: William Penn to George Washington, with Special Reference to the Philadelphia-Chippendale School (Philadelphia: Honor, 1935), plate 361.