Lot Essay
An almost identical set of oak hall chairs, twelve in number, were supplied in 1751 by the cabinet-maker William Masters of Coventry Street, Piccadilly to the 2nd Duke of Atholl (d. 1764) for Blair Castle (A. Coleridge, 'William Masters and some early 18th Century furniture at Blair Castle, Scotland', Connoisseur, October 1963, p. 79, fig. 5).