The Grecian raked back of klismos from with palmette-enriched tablet and reed-and-rosette embellished legs derives from chairs illustrated by Thomas Hope in Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807, pl.IV. The arms relate to chairs with bacchic lion- monopodiae arm-supports illustrated in Thomas Sheraton, The Cabinet Dictionary, 1803, pl.31. This form of paw is fairly distinctive and there may be a connection with either Marsh and Tatham or their elusive chairmaker B.Harmer who stamped the magnificent set of dining-chairs, with very similar arm-supports, that was sold anonymously in these Rooms, 11 April 1991, lot 83.