The design of this shield-back chair's splat, with its demi-sunflower medallion and Ceres' corn-spray emerging from a rosette and framed by entwined ribbons, derives from A. Hepplewhite & Co., The Cabinet-maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788, pl.4.

A related chair, inlaid with boxwood paterae, but sharing this chair's beaded central splat and frame to the sunflower and rosette-capped crest-rail, was given to the Victoria & Albert Museum in 1934. (Illustrated, R. Edwards, English Chairs, London, 1965, fig.103.)