MANUFACTURED BY THONET, CIRCA 1880

Cf: Christopher Wilk, Thonet. 150 Years of Furniture, New York, 1980, p. 47, pl. 52, chair to the same design from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art illustrated.
This model was featured in the Gebrder Thonet catalogues of 1888, (p. 15) and of 1904, (p. 56).