This Irish chair with its characteristic 'webbed' claw feet, open elongated scrolls at the top of the legs, and shell-enriched toprail with 'flattened' carving, relates to one illustrated in The Knight of Glin, Irish Furniture, The Irish Heritage Series: 16, Dublin, 1978, p. 23. A further related chair is illustrated in H. Cescinsky, English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, London, vol. II, p. 27, fig. 9.