These ball-turned chairs, known in the 17th Century as 'back-stools', are likely to have formed part of the original furnishings commissioned for Tyttenhanger, Hertfordshire, following its building in the mid-17th Century by Sir Henry Blount (d. 1682). A chair of related pattern from Wooton House, Sussex, is illustrated in M. Harris, The English Chair, 1937, p. 81, pl. X1B