The japanned chair, with baluster-supported arms, reed-ringed legs, and figurative tablet emblematic of Peace and Plenty, relates to chair patterns issued by Thomas Sheraton in his The Cabinet-Dictionary of 1803. Among the most celebrated chair-makers of this period was John Gee of Wardour Street, 'Chairmaker' to King George III, whose stamp features on a related set of chairs sold anonymously in these Rooms, 6 April 1995, lot 63, and on another set with putti on the tablets sold by the Executors of the late Dowager Lady Camoys, The Dower House, Stonor, in these Rooms, 14 April 1988, lot 71. A further related pair of painted armchairs was sold anonymously, Christie's New York, 16 April 1994, lot 260.