This chair is designed in the Louis XVI 'antique' style and would probably have been decorated in the French white and gold scheme. Both design and decoration reflect the 1780s style of George, Prince of Wales, later King George IV. The fluted frame, bow-fronted seat-rail and 'medallion' back, curved to match the seat-frame, relate to an armchair, with Prince of Wales' feathers, after a Hepplewhite pattern, illustrated in M.Tomlin, Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture, London, 1972, p.131.
Perhaps the best known suite of this type is that supplied to Sir Thomas Beauchamp Proctor, Bt., Langley Park, Norfolk, possibly by Thomas Chippendale Junior. A set of four chairs from that suite were sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 9 July 1992, lot 70