The parlour-chair, with cluster-column legs and fret-ribband splat formed as rusticated cluster-pilasters with cusped-arcading and acanthus-enrichments, typifies the picturesque 'Old English' style popularised by Thomas Chippendale's patterns for 'Gothick' chairs published in his Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1754-63. The pilaster with bifurcated aperture featured in his 1763 edition, pl. XVI. Chairs of this pattern are illustrated in P. Broome, The Hyde Park Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 119. An armchair of this model was sold anonymously, Christie's New York, 12 December 1990, lot 141.
These are possibly the chairs illustrated in M. Harris and Sons., English Chairs, London, 1937, p. 137