The Grecian chair-backs, with their reeded drapery-swags and bacchic lion-mask tablets, relate to that of an 1804 'Drawing Room Chair' pattern illustrated in Thomas Sheraton's, The Cabinet-Maker, Upholsterer, and General Artist's Encyclopaedia, London, 1803-6, pl. 1 of chairs. The same pattern was adapated for some dining-chairs supplied to the 2nd Earl Talbot (d. 1849), around the time that he was appointed Viceroy of Ireland in 1817. The Talbot chairs were sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 29 March 1984, lot 72, and again anonymously, in these Rooms, 7 July 1994, lot 50.