There are at least three other New York easy chairs of this form. A nearly identical example, now in the Museum of the City of New York, descended in the Van Wagenen family of Cedar Grove, near Poughkeepsie, New York. The Winterthur Museum owns a second version from New York, also with acanthus leaves on the knees, but the carving style and the squarish ball and claw feet suggest the work of a different cabinet shop. A third, owned by Bernard and S. Dean Levy in 1988, appears to have yet another style of carving.

The amount of fabric required to cover an easy chair made them expensive household possessions in the 18th century. Inventories commonly list them in bedchambers, where they might also be fitted with a chamber pot. The chairs were often upholstered en suite with the bed hangings and window curtains. Although any wealthy individual could own one, the combination of padded upholstery and a protected niche enclosed by the wings made these chairs particularly suitable for sick or elderly people. Among John Singleton Copley's well-known portraits of Bostonians, the two with easy chairs depict Mrs. Moses Gill and Mrs. John Powell, both in old age. In New York City, Abraham Delanoy painted Dr. William Beekman at age 83 in a silk damask upholstered easy chair.