While serving as secretary of state in New York in 1790, Jefferson purchased a good deal of furniture from local cabinetmakers, particularly Thomas Burling. The attribution of this chair to Burling is based upon a very similar chair, now at Mount Vernon, that Burling made for President Washington. Jefferson’s chair is located with his writing table in the Cabinet at Monticello.

1:24 scale; 1 15/16”h x 1”w x 1”d.