These chairs with their rope-twist toprails and sabre legs with paw feet, are designed in the early 19th Century manner such as featured in George Smith's Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, London, 1808 (plate 56). A pair of oval-backed library chairs, with similar legs, was supplied by Morel and Hughes to Orlando Bridgeman (d. 1825), 2nd Baron Bradford (and later 1st Earl of Bradford) for the library at Weston Park, Shropshire in 1806 (illustrated in P. Rogers, 'A Regency Interior: The Remodelling of Weston Park', Furniture History, 1987, p. 32, fig. 4).
Interestingly, our chairs were one of seven lots, sold in these Rooms, 14 December 1967, lot 171, that were reputedly made for one of Lord Nelson's Admirals after the battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The group of furniture all appears to have come from the same workshop and has similar decoration.